Kazuo Ishiguro: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
- ISBN-10
- 144110058X
- ISBN-13
- 9781441100580
- Series
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-01-28
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Authors
- Sean Matthews, Sebastian Groes
Description
Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author, television writer and novelist, included twice in Granta's list of Best Young British Writers, has over the past twenty-five years produced a body of work which is just as critically-acclaimed as it is popular with the general public. Like the writings of Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro's work is concerned with creating discursive platforms for issues of class, ethics, ethnicity, nationhood, place, gender and the uses and problems surrounding artistic representation. As a Japanese immigrant who came to Great Britain in 1960, Ishiguro has used his unique position and fine intellectual abilities to contemplate what it means to be British in the contemporary era. This guide traces the main themes throughout Ishiguro's writing whilst it also pays attention to his short stories and writing for television. It includes a new interview with the author, a preface by Haruki Murakami and discussion of James Ivory's adaptation of The Remains of the Day.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Never Let Me Go
By Kazuo IshiguroAcclaim for Kazuo Ishiguro's N E V E R L E T M E G O FINAL IST FOR T H E M A N B O O KER PRIZE 'Kazuo Ishiguro is a master storyteller, in a class of his own making. ... [He] throws light on ordinary human life, the human soul, ...
-
The Remains of the Day
By Kazuo IshiguroThis is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.
-
Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro
By Kazuo IshiguroNineteen interviews conducted over the past two decades on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond with the author of the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day
-
Klara and the Sun
By Kazuo IshiguroHere is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside.
-
Kazuo Ishiguro
By Wai-chew SimIn this guide to Ishiguro’s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents: a biographical survey of Ishiguro’s literary career, and an introduction to his novels, plays and short stories an accessible overview of the ...
-
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture
By Kazuo IshiguroThe Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017, in an elegant, clothbound edition.
-
Nocturnes
By Kazuo IshiguroA NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six previous novels, including Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, which won the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro's work has been ...
-
The Buried Giant: A novel
By Kazuo IshiguroNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
-
Kazuo Ishiguro
By Cynthia F. WongThis book analyses his subtle and ironic portrayals of people in 'emotional bereavement' and it situates Ishiguro as an empathetic international writer.
-
A Pale View of Hills
By Kazuo IshiguroFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter ...