The Review of Contemporary Fiction, March 22nd, 2005
"I sometimes feel that if I had written a book like Kafka's Trial, people would say to me, 'What a strange judicial system the Japanese have.'"
--Kazuo Ishiguro, qtd. in Bryson 44
In a discussion of the professional restrictions besetting cosmopolitan writers, the critic Timothy Brennan suggests that they are "unable to enter the scene of letters as innovations in the way, for example, that a talented North American novelist without ethnic baggage might be packaged as the rude boy or girl of a new generation" (203). This is a simple fact of life for some artists, and it has certainly been ...
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