Kazuo Ishiguro

Kristian Shaw, Peter Sloane, Kristian Shaw, Peter Sloane

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781526157539
• eBook ISBN: 9781526157522
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This is the first work of criticism to reappraise all of this leading transnational author's film, television, short fiction and novel writing following his award of the Nobel Prize in 2017. Comprising contributions from world-leading Ishiguro scholars as well as new voices, the collection offers chapters devoted to each of the major works, each of which draws out thematic and stylistic connections with his body of work, both literary and filmic. This timely study, following the critical and popular success of his most recent fiction and his recognition by the Nobel committee, is the only comprehensive study of an author at the forefront of world literature.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Contributors
• Series editors’ preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: ‘This is the way it feels to me’: the writings of Kazuo Ishiguro
• 1: Diaspora, trauma, spectrality and world literary writing in A Pale View of Hills
• 2: Eloquence and empathy in A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World
• 3: Ishiguro's tempered presentational realism and practice
• 4: ‘An inevitable course’: political responsibility in The Remains of the Day
• 5: Klara in the junkyard: on loneliness in The Unconsoled
• 6: Novel dysfunction in When We Were Orphans
• 7: Empathy and the ethics of posthuman reading in Never Let Me Go
• 8: Nocturnes, hope and ‘that croony nostalgia music’
• 9: Disinterring the English sublime: haunted atmospherics in The Buried Giant
• 10: Klara and the humans: agency, Hannah Arendt and forgiveness
• 11: Kazuo Ishiguro's film and television scriptwriting
• Index