The Remains of the Day Summary
Kazuo Ishiguro

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... Read more

"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... Read more

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. Stevens, the hero of Kazuo Ishiguro... Read more

In Kazuo Ishiguro's post-World War period novel The Remains of the Day, the stereotypical English butler's, Stevens, pursuit of dignity and denial of self parallels the British gentlemen's rigidity i... Read more

Humour within both `The Remains of the Day' and `A Room with a View' is not a theme imminent, as it would be in other texts, but both novels contain a certain humour at times, sometimes at the very ab... Read more