My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs

Kazuo Ishiguro

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2017
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571346554
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro. A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in the world, it is a characteristically thoughtful and moving piece.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Epigraph
• Contents
• If you’d come across me in the autumn of 1979…
• I had come to England, aged five, with my parents and sister…
• Spring 1983, three and a half years later.
• March 1988. I was thirty-three years old.
• The story I’d just finished was about an English butler…
• In October 1999, I was invited by the German poet…
• One evening in early 2001, in the darkened front…
• Important turning points in a writer’s career –
• So we come to the present.
• About the Author
• The works of Kazuo Ishiguro
• Copyright