Winner of the Whitbread Award in 1986, Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel follows the first-person narrative of Masuji Ono, a Tokyo painter, after World War II. Masuji has retired and spends his time in meditative seclusion, in contrast to the prominence… Read More ›
A common link among Kazuo Ishiguro’s (born 8 November 1954) novels is the prominence of the first-person narrator, through whose meandering thoughts the story unfolds. Readers soon discover, however, that these central voices are rather unreliable in their accounts of… Read More ›
From the ancient belief in humors to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries’ psychoanalytic and pharmacological methodologies, diverse theories about the mind have affected the literary production of novelists. Categorization according to these theories is difficult, because authors tend to mix… Read More ›
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