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English 1057 The Remains of the Day (1988). Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-) -Father was an oceanographer -Born in Nagasaki; moved to England at age five -Educated.

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1 English 1057 The Remains of the Day (1988)

2 Kazuo Ishiguro (1954-) -Father was an oceanographer -Born in Nagasaki; moved to England at age five -Educated in Kent, East Anglia -First novel 1982; seven in total so far -Feels he has a very “mixed” cultural identity which is neither strongly Japanese nor English

3 Themes in his novels -Ishiguro’s novels tend to have a strong post-modern style -Time is jumbled and narration cuts back and forth -Things aren’t clear; reality is inconsistent and subjective -Bad memories are repressed and denied but “bubble up” -E.g. Etsuko’s repression of memory after the bombings of Nagasaki

4 The Remains of the Day (1989) -Ishiguro’s third novel -Highly regarded and praised; winner of the Man Booker Prize in 1989 -Film adaption with Anthony Hopkins (1993)

5 Themes -A butler’s “dignity” and social constraints -Loyalty and politics: Stevens defends his (Nazi?) employer, Lord Darlington -Love and duty: Stevens does not respond to Miss Kenton’s emotions or to his father -Memory: Stevens remembers in fragments. Are these memories consistent? How do they change?


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