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Kazuo Ishiguro's literary reputation was established by three novels published over seven years: A Pale View of Hills won the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first novel of 1982; An Artist of the Floating World won the 19...

"When I write a novel perhaps some part of me wants to offer in a book an experience that you can't get easily sitting in front of a cinema screen or a television screen," novelist Kazuo Ishiguro told Linda Richards in an interview for January magazine o...

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954, Kazuo Ishiguro moved to England with his family in 1960. While the family lived in an upper-middle-class London suburb and Ishiguro attended English schools, he spoke Japanese at...

The Remains of the Day (1989) is the third novel by Japanese-British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It won the Booker prize in...

Last night, illustrious film director James Ivory was honored at the Trophée des Arts Gala in Gotham Hall—a fittingly cinematic space with soaring, ornamented ceilings and dreadful acoustics. Uma Thurman didn’t attend the black-tie dinner, but she did arrive just in time to give Mr....

Communication is the cornerstone of a healthy relationship. At least that’s what’s been shoved down the throats of the love-hungry for decades. And perhaps it was true 150 years ago, when the best way to communicate over any real distance was to write down your...

'Tis the season for budding talent-just ask Jonathan Safran Foer, whose second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Houghton Mifflin), can't be far off and won't be quietly received: The adoring profile in the Feb. 27 New York Times Magazine raised the curtain on a...

By the time I sat down for a studio screening of Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, I was braced by all the advance hype from Venice and Toronto, as well as the local showbiz columns and media outlets, for the supposed shock of two men in...

In the following essay Cardullo compares the movie version of The Remains of the Day with the novel.

In the following review of The Remains of the Day, Rubin praises Ishiguro's ability to get inside his characters and portray all their complexities.

A short informative essay on Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day."

Examines the novel, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Explores the relationship between the character Steven and Lord Darlington and Father. Details how they affect him.

In both Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day and E.M. Forster's novel A Room with a View, humor is used to lighten the mood of serious social commentary. However, the humor in The Remains of the Day takes the form of tragi-comedy, underlining a more deeply rooted sadness in Stevens' character; whereas the humor in A Room with a View is much less tragic, displaying social class difference and the absurdity of upper class pretensions.