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AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD. by Kazuo Ishiguro ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ap. Set in the years immediately after WW II in Japan, Ishiguro's novel bears down upon a Japanese painter, Ono, now middle-aged, who has totally renounced his art, who decided (some years before) to make no more. Thereafter, he lives a semi-tranquil life with his family—a wife, grown daughters, even a Author: Kirkus Reviews. An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World () is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan, and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life, and how he has lived it/5(K). In the realm of literary fiction, An Artist of the Floating World shows deep similarities—in its themes, structure, and even characters—to his later novel, The Remains of the Day, which centers on the reflections of a British butler living in the years after World War II and attempting to come to terms with his employment by Nazi collaborators. Ishiguro’s work also shares its thematic concern with memory .

Ishiguro's subtle, probing unpacking of Japanese militarism and the disorientation that accompanies widespread change, An Artist of the Floating World looks back at the trauma of the early twentieth-century through the eyes of a once lauded painter. Never cheaply judgmental or crudely melodramatic, Ishiguro interrogates the politicisation of art and the painful relinquishing of pride in a. An Artist of the Floating World. By: Kazuo Ishiguro. Narrated by: David Case. Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins. Unabridged Audiobook. Categories: Literature Fiction, Genre Fiction. out of 5 stars. ( ratings) Add to Cart failed. In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in but moved to England in , writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian.

The best novels: No 94 – An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro () Kazuo Ishiguro’s study of guilt, ageing and solitude in postwar, post-imperial Japan is a tour de force of. AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD. by Kazuo Ishiguro ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ap. Set in the years immediately after WW II in Japan, Ishiguro's novel bears down upon a Japanese painter, Ono, now middle-aged, who has totally renounced his art, who decided (some years before) to make no more. Thereafter, he lives a semi-tranquil life with his family—a wife, grown daughters, even a grandson—and seems to have made peace with his renunciation (although occasionally his ego still finds. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro |: Books. Inhe received an Order of ishigruo British Empire for service to literature, and in was named kauzo Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. Kazuo Ishiguro is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.