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Cargando... My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecturepor Kazuo Ishiguro
  
Books Read in 2019 (1,508) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) AliceaP | Jun 18, 2021 |   ) arewenotben | Jul 31, 2020 | "I thought if I took care of the relationships, then maybe the characters would take care of themselves." It's impossible to realize how potent this simple tenet of storytelling can be until you see Ishiguro masterfully execute it in Never Let Me Go. I believe this to be the most important lesson he taught us, and the secret to the emotional potency and outpouring humanity of his books and characters. There are other notable tid-bits here. How he completely changed the track of Remains of the Day while listening to Tom Waits sing Ruby's Arm, how he's found similar motivation in other singers (especially Bob Dylan & The Beatles, perhaps further vindicating Dylan's controversial Nobel Prize win), the idea of transitioning from passage to passage using the narrator's thought associations (again, sounds simple but potent when executed as he does it), and his sense of belonging to Japan. He starts on an personal note, with stories of his years as a student in a creative writing program in the UK, and ends with a political one, mentioning everything from Iraq to CRISPR. Nothing too interesting here other than the few things I mentioned. (  ) pod_twit | Mar 30, 2020 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017, in an elegant, clothbound edition. In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction and his mastery at uncovering our illusory sense of connection with the world. In the eloquent and candid lecture he delivered upon accepting the award, Ishiguro reflects on the way he was shaped by his upbringing, and on the turning points in his career--"small scruffy moments . . . quiet, private sparks of revelation"--that made him the writer he is today. With the same generous humanity that has graced his novels, Ishiguro here looks beyond himself, to the world that new generations of writers are taking on, and what it will mean--what it will demand of us--to make certain that literature remains not just alive, but essential. An enduring work on writing and becoming a writer, by one of the most accomplished novelists of our generation. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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