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An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 1986
A comprehensive guide to Kazuo Ishiguro's novel about a Japanese painter's memories and reflections in the aftermath of World War II. Find plot summary, analysis, themes, quotes, characters, symbols, and more.
1 de jan. de 1986 · Kazuo Ishiguro. 3.78. 38,513 ratings3,560 reviews. In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II.
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Um romance sensível e comovente do vencedor do prêmio Nobel, ambientado no Japão após a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Masuji Ono, protagonista e narrador deste primoroso romance do vencedor do prêmio Nobel de literatura, é um homem de seu tempo. Pintor de grande renome do Japão antes e durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, ainda jovem Masuji ...
Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the “floating world”—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise.
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Kazuo Ishiguro's novel explores the themes of guilt, truth and ageing through the memories of a retired painter in post-war Japan. The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1986 and published by Faber & Faber.
An Artist of the Floating World is a beautiful emotional set piece. Following World War II, an aging Japanese artist struggles to integrate his experience of post-war Japan with the memories of his pre-war life and his role in the rise of the empire that ended in the destruction of the old world.
