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12 de abr. de 2024 · The Remains of the Day, novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 1989. The Remains of the Day , Ishiguro’s first novel set outside his native Japan and in his adopted England, is typical of Ishiguro’s style: delicate, detailed, and evocative prose which reveals the perceived flaws in a central character through that character’s first-person narrative.
The Remains of the Day is told in the first-person narration of an English butler named Stevens. In July 1956, Stevens decides to take a six- day road trip to the West Country of England—a region to the west of Darlington Hall, the house in which Stevens resides and has worked as a butler for thirty-four years.
Academy Award-winners Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson star in this moving tale of butler whose devotion to duty prevents him from acknowledging his love fo...
1 de mar. de 2024 · Kazuo Ishiguro. Published by. Faber & Faber. Kazuo Ishiguro’s moving portrait of the perfect English butler, his loyalty and his fading, insular world in post-war England. Ishiguro’s 1989 Booker Prize-winning novel is a comedy of manners that meditates on duty, repressed desire and self-sacrifice. Read an extract from March’s Monthly ...
18 de abr. de 2021 · The Remains of the Day. カズオ・イシグロのブッカー賞原作をジェームズ・アイヴォリー監督が映画化。アンソニー・ホプキンスとエマ・トンプソンによる、執事と女中頭との信頼とほのかな恋心。ああ、これが英国流の節度ある恋愛か。
Like The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro’s first two books are also related to history and personal memory: A Pale View of Hills is about a Japanese widow looking back to the destruction and rebuilding of Nagasaki after the atomic bomb, and An Artist of the Floating World, also set in Japan, is narrated by an elderly painter looking back on his past and reconsidering Japanese attitudes about ...
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past. 'A triumph . . .
