![]() ![]() Occasionally, this approach can be oblique to the point of frustration. “I tend to write the same book over and over,” Ishiguro told the Guardian in 2015, “or at least, I take the same subject I took last time out and refine it, or do a slightly different take on it.” ![]() They tend to revolve around a single traumatic idea that the narrator is not entirely capable of confronting head-on - that the narrator of Never Let Me Go is a clone who will eventually donate all of her vital organs to someone else that the butler narrator of The Remains of the Day has spent his life tending to a Nazi - and which the book describes in anxious, claustrophobic circles until the reader fully understands it. Ishiguro’s novels are mostly first-person, and mostly told by an unreliable narrator. In a statement, the Swedish Academy wrote that Ishiguro, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” Kazuo Ishiguro, the English novelist who wrote Never Let Me Go and The R emains of the Day, has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for literature. ![]()
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