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A summary of notes on the novel The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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, Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)
The Remains of the Day (1989)
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Japan in 1954 and moved with his family at the age of five to
England. He has received many nominations and awards, among them 4 Man Booker Prize.
He often describes himself as a homeless writer, for he doesn’t feel more English than
Japanese, nor the opposite. Being devoid of a sense of belonging to either of his two realities,
gives him an artistic equality that is absolved from historical or cultural injunctions and allows
him to translate this sense of homelessness into something universal, into stories about the
human condition.
In 1989 he published “The Remains of the Day”, which got him one of his 4 Man Booker Prize.
It’s a historical novel, an English aristocratic novel. It is told in 1st person narration and has
the form of a journal-travelogue which moves in a seamless way between two time frames; the
first one is in the early 1920s, when the narrator describes in the past tense memories of his
service as a butler under an English gentleman named Lord Darlington, and the second one is
in the year 1956, when after the recommendation of his new master- the American senator
Lewis, he undertakes a journey to the West Country (Cornwall) to visit an old co-worker and
possible the love of his life. In parallel to his outer exploration of the English countryside, he
embarks on an inner emotional journey, a gradual coming to emotional consciousness by
conflating the present with the past and by almost coming to terms with the haunting truths in
his life.
The novel employs at least two of Ishiguro’s regular themes. First and foremost, it deals with
the ways in which the understandings and the experiences of the individual are conflicted
with the collective ideals and the official accounts. And he examines this conflict both in terms
of world history and of social and national consciousness.
The historical unconscious of the novel os founded on the significance of the chosen
timerames: on the one hand the years before the WW2 and on the other hand the year of the
Suez Canal crisis, which for many stands as a symbol for the decline of England’s imperial
powers. The fact that the protagonist structured his story to such historical backgrounds,
highlights the post-imperial and even post-colonial associations of the novel.
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