Kazuo Ishiguro

by Wong, Cynthia F.

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Title Statements

Full title :Kazuo Ishiguro / Cynthia F. Wong.

Summary

"This study of contemporary British writer Kazuo Ishiguro and his work explores the author's uses of memory in narrative, particularly the effects of memory on reliability of point of view and the narrator's manipulation of desire. As a compassionate novelist, Ishiguro examines the way that human beings reinterpret worlds from which they feel estranged. All of his works are eloquent expressions of people struggling with the silence of pain and the awkward stutters of confusion and loss. This book analyses his subtle and ironic portrayals of people in 'emotional bereavement,' and it situates Ishiguro as an important 'international novelist' by looking at his constructions of personal and political histories."--BOOK JACKET.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Northcote House
Place of Publication:Tavistock
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

Notes

Previous edition: 2000.

In association with the British Council.

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 129 pages : : 1 portrait ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0746311427, 9780746311424
oclc:ocm56651423
LC Classification:PR6059.S5
Dewey Decimal:823.914

Ishiguro as an international writer -- Reading the novels -- Narrative and memory : A pale view of hills -- Deflecting truth in memory : An artist of the floating world -- Disclosure and 'unconcealment' : The remains of the day -- Seizing comprehension : The unsoled -- Odd failures of guardianship in When we were orphans and Never let me go.