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Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day (ELL).
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
Author: Adam ParkesPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826452310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question. The books in the series will all follow the same structure:a biography of the novelist, including other works, influences, and, in some cases, an interview; a full-length study of the novel, drawing out the most important themes and ideas; a summary of how the novel was received upon publication; a summary of how the novel has performed since publication, including film or TV adaptations, literary prizes, etc.; a wide range of suggestions for further reading, including websites and discussion forums; and a list of questions for reading groups to discuss.
Study The Remains of the Day de Kazuo Ishiguro
Author: François GallixPublisher:
ISBN: 9782842741617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Dans Les Vestiges du jour, roman porté à l'écran par James Ivory, Kazuo Ishiguro a créé un personnage mythique de la littérature anglaise contemporaine. Stevens est en effet un majordome comme on n'en fait plus. Le dénouement qui le lie à son maître, lord Darlington, semble n'avoir aucune limite, même lorsque ce dernier organise dans sa demeure des conférences internationales qui vont faciliter l'entrée en guerre des nazis. Que se passe-t-il en réalité dans la conscience de celui qui " ne voit rien, n'entend rien et ne dit rien " et comment a-t-il pu laisser partir celle qui aurait été le seul amour de sa vie ? C'est à vous, lecteur, d'en décider.
The Remains of the Day
Author: Kazuo IshiguroPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307576183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
A Study Guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410356442
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
A Study Guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
A Study Guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's "Remains of the Day, The (Lit-to-Film)"
Author: Cengage Learning GalePublisher:
ISBN: 9781375393232
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
A Study Guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's "Remains of the Day, The (Lit-to-Film)," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
About: Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
Author: Stefanie GrillPublisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638184765
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Essay from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0 (B), University of Stuttgart (FB Anglistics), course: Essay Writing, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: "The Remains of the Day", winner of the 1989 Booker Prize, was written by Kazuo Ishiguro in 1989. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki , Japan, on November 8, 1954. At the age of five he came to Great Britain, were he had a typical English upbringing with an immersion in Japanese culture and language. Ishiguro has gained a reputation as one of the finest British writers. "His fiction deals broadly with themes of self-deception, truth and the clash of public and private images of his characters. He reworks the images which people have both of themselves and of their historical background. He situates his work firmly in the inner world of his characters and often avoids much overt plot construction." While set technically in the present, most of the novel takes place in a sequence of reminiscences in the past. The book tells the story of an old man who takes a trip across England to the sea. His name is Stevens, and he had been the head butler at Darlington Hall, a famous country house, for many years. He is going to visit a woman, he has not seen in a long time: Miss Kenton, who was once the housekeeper at Darlington Hall. He thinks perhaps she can be persuaded to resume her old position under the hall′s new owner, a retired American Congressman. Along his way to the sea, in flashback, we see his memories of the great days at Darlington Hall, when Lord Darlington played host to the world′s leaders. The work gives you an analysis of the major parts of the book, including characterisation and development of Mr. Stevens, history in "The Remains of the Day" and structure and presentation of narrative notes.
The Remains of the Day
Author: Kazuo IshiguroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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 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, of lost causes and lost love.
Kazuo Ishiguro: "The Remains of the Day" - Stevens' Philosophy of Life
Author: Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638440311
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Frankfurt (Main), course: Contemporary British Fiction, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "The Remains of the Day" is about Stevens' life as a butler. With the help of his personal and professional relationships with the additional main characters - his father, his employer Lord Darlington and Miss Kenton, who he loved without knowing it- it shall be shown what Stevens' life was like, which course his life took and what reason there is at the end of his journey to ask himself what he has achieved and what remains of his life.
The Remains of the Day
Author: Kazuo IshiguroPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0345809327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning masterpiece became an international bestseller on publication, was adapted into an award-winning film and has since come to be regarded as a modern classic. The Remains of the Day is a spellbinding portrayal of a vanished way of life and a haunting meditation on the high cost of duty. It is also one of the most subtle, sad and humorous love stories ever written. It is the summer of 1956, when Stevens, a man who has dedicated himself to his career as a perfect butler in the one-time great house of Darlington Hall, sets off on a holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and, unexpectedly, into his own past, especially his friendship with the housekeeper, Miss Kenton. As memories surface of his lifetime "in service" to Lord Darlington, and of his life between the wars, when the fate of the continent seemed to lie in the hands of a few men, he finds himself confronting the dark undercurrent beneath the carefully run world of his employer.
