The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Kazuo Ishiguro

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Kazuo Ishiguro's third novel, The Remains of the Day, earned the 1989 Booker Prize, England's highest literary honor. The book is, in effect, a character study of Stevens, an aging butler who has spent thirty years in service at Darlington Hall. As he considers his past, he is forced to come to terms with the gravity of the sacrifices he has made in the name of duty.

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The Remains of the Day

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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

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Kazuo Ishiguro

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"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

Kazuo Ishiguro

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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 nov... Read more

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Salvaging the Day

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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

Remains of the Day: The Call Duty Vs the Call of the Heart

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In The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, Stevens is unable to pursue his feelings freely because of his relationships with Lord Darlington and his father. Stevens abandons his feelings ... Read more

Contrast the Use of Humour in "the Remains of the Day" and "a Room with a View"

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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

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