Kazuo Ishiguro / Barry Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Barry, 1961-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Contemporary world writers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954---Criticism and interpretation.

Ishiguro, Kazuo.

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Local Subjects:

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 191 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester Universtity Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

The first complete study of Ishiguro's work from "A Pale View of the Hills" to "When We Were Orphans," this book explores the centrality of dignity and displacement in Ishiguro's vision, and teases out the connotations of home and homelessness in his fictions. Barry Lewis focuses on such key questions as: How Japanese is Ishiguro?; What role does memory and unreliability play in his narratives?; Why was "The Unconsoled" understood to be such a radical break from the earlier novels?

Contents:

1 Contexts and intertexts 1

2 A Pale View of Hills 18

3 An Artist of the Floating World 45

4 The Remains of the Day 73

5 The Unconsoled 101

6 Critical overview and conclusion 129

7 Postscript on When We Were Orphans 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-185) and index.

ISBN:

071905513X

0719055148

OCLC:

46657425