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Indlæser... Resten af dagen (1989)af Kazuo Ishiguro
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We can work out the date of Stevens's expedition ... Ominous dates. ... the Suez crisis dominated British current affairs. ... Stevens is not returning to a golden evening ... there are no remains -- except in the sense of `corpse'. The Remains of the Day is too much a roman à thèse, and a judgmental one besides. Compared to his astounding narrative sophistication, Ishiguro's message seems quite banal: Be less Japanese, less bent on dignity, less false to yourself and others, less restrained and controlled. The irony is that it is precisely Ishiguro's beautiful restraint and control that one admires, and, in the case of the last novel [The Remains of the Day], his nerve in setting up such a high-wire act for himself. Kazuo Ishiguro's tonal control of Stevens' repressive yet continually reverberating first-person voice is dazzling. So is his ability to present the butler from every point on the compass: with affectionate humor, tart irony, criticism, compassion and full understanding. It is remarkable, too, that as we read along in this strikingly original novel, we continue to think not only about the old butler, but about his country, its politics and its culture. Tilhører ForlagsserienIndeholdt iHar tilpasningenEr forkortet iHas as a reference guide/companionIndeholder studiedelIndeholder elevguideHæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
Mr. Stevens er en rigtig engelsk butler, pedantisk og uden sans for demokratiske omgangsformer, men han mindes med stolthed årene før krigen, da "Darlington Hall" var samlingssted for tidens store ånder. No library descriptions found. |
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