Kazuo Ishiguro Livres

" Les grands majordomes sont grands parce qu'ils ont la capacité d'habiter leur rôle professionnel, et de l'habiter autant que faire se peut ; ils ne se laissent pas ébranler par les événements extérieurs, fussent-ils surprenants, alarmants ou offensants. Ils portent leur professionnalisme comme un homme bien élevé porte son costume. C'est, je l'ai dit, une question de "dignité". " Stevens a passé sa vie à servir les autres, majordome pendant les années 1930 de l'influent Lord Darlington puis d'un riche Américain. Les temps ont changé et il n'est plus certain de satisfaire son employeur. Jusqu'à ce qu'il parte en voyage vers Miss Kenton, l'ancienne gouvernante qu'il aurait pu aimer, et songe face à la campagne anglaise au sens de sa loyauté et de ses choix passés...

Kath, Ruth et Tommy ont été élèves à Hailsham dans les années quatre-vingt-dix ; une école idyllique, nichée dans la campagne anglaise, où les enfants étaient protégés du monde extérieur et élevés dans l'idée qu'ils étaient des êtres à part, que leur bien-être personnel était essentiel, non seulement pour eux-mêmes, mais pour la société dans laquelle ils entreraient un jour. Mais pour quelles raisons les avait-on réunis là ? Bien des années plus tard, Kath s'autorise enfin à céder aux appels de la mémoire et tente de trouver un sens à leur passé commun. Avec Ruth et Tommy, elle prend peu à peu conscience que leur enfance apparemment heureuse n'a cessé de les hanter, au point de frelater leurs vies d'adultes. Kazuo Ishiguro traite de sujets qui nous touchent de près aujourd'hui : la perte de l'innocence, l'importance de la mémoire, ce qu'une personne est prête à donner, la valeur qu'elle accorde à autrui, la marque qu'elle pourra laisser. Ce roman vertigineux, porté par la grâce, raconte une histoire d'humanité, de conscience et d'amour dans l'Angleterre contemporaine. Ce chef-d'oeuvre d'anticipation est appelé à devenir le classique de nos vies fragiles.

« Klara est une AA, une Amie Artificielle, un robot de pointe ultraperformant créé spécialement pour tenir compagnie aux enfants et aux adolescents. Klara est dotée d’un extraordinaire talent d’observation, et derrière la vitrine du magasin où elle se trouve, elle profite des rayons bienfaisants du Soleil et étudie le comportement des passants, ceux qui s’attardent pour jeter un coup d’œil depuis la rue ou qui poursuivent leur chemin sans s’arrêter. Elle nourrit l’espoir qu’un jour quelqu’un entre et vienne la choisir. Lorsque l’occasion se présente enfin, Klara est toutefois mise en garde : mieux vaut ne pas accorder trop de crédit aux promesses des humains...Après l’obtention du prix Nobel de littérature, Kazuo Ishiguro nous offre un nouveau chef-d’œuvre qui met en scène avec virtuosité la façon dont nous apprenons à aimer. Ce roman, qui nous parle d’amitié, d’éthique, d’altruisme et de ce qu’être humain signifie, pose une question à l’évidence troublante : à quel point sommes-nous irremplaçables ? »-- Quatrième de couverture

When 9-year-old Christopher Banks's father, a British businessman in the opium trade, vanishes from their Shanghai home, he and his friend Akira play at being detectives. Their imaginative adventures culminate in a grand ceremony in Jessfield Park, where they envision themselves as heroes. However, when Christopher's mother also disappears, he is sent to England, growing up between the world wars and claiming to be a famous detective. The haunting memories of his family's fate linger, prompting him to return to Shanghai in the late 1930s to solve the most crucial case of his life. As he investigates, the lines between reality and fantasy blur. Is the Japanese soldier he encounters truly Akira? Are his parents imprisoned in a Chinese district? And who is Mr. Grayson, the British official planning a significant celebration? Ishiguro employs crime fiction conventions to depict a troubled mind grappling with childhood trauma. Unlike Sherlock Holmes, who deduces from tangible clues, Christopher relies on fading memories, making the truth elusive. The first-person narrative reveals cracks in Christopher's perspective, compelling readers to become detectives themselves, piecing together his fragmented recollections. Ishiguro's controlled prose enhances the emotional depth of this haunting novel, showcasing Christopher Banks as one of his most memorable characters.

Experience the wonder of the written word from some of the greatest writers of the modern age, with Faber Modern Classics. The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's best-loved Booker Prize-winning novel.

Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro. A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in the world, it is a characteristically thoughtful and moving piece.

Memorably introduced by Ishiguro himself, The Summer We crossed Europe in the Rain collects the sixteen song lyrics he wrote for world-renowned American singer, Stacey Kent, which were set to music by her partner Jim Tomlinson. An exquisite coming together of the literary and musical worlds, the lyrics are infused with a sense of yearning, melancholy, love, and the romance of travel and liminal spaces.Further exploring the notion of collaboration and interpretation, the collection is illustrated by the acclaimed Italian artist, Bianca Bagnarelli whose work perfectly captures the atmosphere and sensibility of the songs.

A Pale View of Hills is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast. Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel is a delicate, elliptical work balanced gracefully between irony and elegy.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.

In Kazuo Ishiguro's hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control.The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past.In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit."A work of great interest and originality.... Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all his own...frankly fantastic [and] fiercer and funnier than before."--The New Yorker

The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards – some strange and other-worldly – but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.

From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. In this title, the author explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time.

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Это роман-притча о "малых сих", о тех, кто находится внизу системы, глубоко в нее верит и верно ей служит. О нашем отношении к другим, к тем, кого мы используем и без кого наш комфорт не мог бы существовать

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Een in Engeland wonende Japanse weduwe beleeft in haar herinnering opnieuw de periode na de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Nagasaki.