Posted on 10/06/2017 7:33:23 AM PDT by Borges
As a young man, Kazuo Ishiguro wanted to be a singer and songwriter. He played at folk clubs and went through several stylistic evolutions — including a purple, poetic phase — before settling into spare, confessional lyrics.
He never succeeded in the music business, but writing songs helped shape the idiosyncratic, elliptical prose style that made him one of the most acclaimed and influential British writers of his generation. “That was all very good preparation for the kind of fiction I went on to write,” Mr. Ishiguro said in a 2015 interview with The New York Times. “You have to leave a lot of meaning underneath the surface.”
Mr. Ishiguro went on to publish seven acclaimed novels, and on Thursday, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the literary world’s highest honor.
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‘The Remains of the Day’ was quite popular.
A surprisingly reasonable choice. I was afraid they’d give it to Margaret Atwood.
WOW! That makes me VERY happy! I love his novels; have read them all! :)
She’s extremely limited. The same few themes, the same tone, the same imagery.
Oh, I agree. But the Nobel committee can rarely resist making a political statement like that.
The Literature prizes the past few years have easily outshone the Peace prizes in worthiness of winners.
> Kazuo Ishiguro Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature <
Oh, hell. I thought Hillary Clinton was a shoe-in, based on her brilliant book “What Happened”. But my sources tell me she’s working on a sequel, “I Am the Biggest Loser, Ever”.
Maybe the sequel will get her the prize next year.
I never heard him speak on it, but I swear Ishiguro was imitating PG Wodehouse’s
“My Man Jeeves.”
Women shut out AGAIN. This after ALL SEVEN “hard science” Nobels went to....(drumroll)....WHITE MEN! The horror!!!
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