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AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD. by Kazuo Ishiguro ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ap. Set in the years immediately after WW II in Japan, Ishiguro's novel bears down upon a Japanese painter, Ono, now middle-aged, who has totally renounced his art, who decided (some years before) to make no more. Thereafter, he lives a semi-tranquil life with his family—a wife, grown daughters, even a Author: Kirkus Reviews. An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World () is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan, and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life, and how he has lived it/5(K). In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in but moved to England in , writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Cited by:

An Artist of the Floating World (), a novel by Nobel-winner Kazuo Ishiguro, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; it also took home the Whitbread Book of the Year bltadwin.rud artist Masuji Ono's career has delivered him prestige, but he questions his status. Due to his political position—working as a nationalist creator of propaganda for the government during World War II—Ono. Kazuo Ishiguro: Thatcher's London and the role of the artist in a time of political change An Artist of the Floating World was written in the early 80s, years of crucial, often fractious and. An Artist of the Floating World. Kazuo Ishiguro. Vintage Books, - Fiction - pages. 53 Reviews. 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.

In the realm of literary fiction, An Artist of the Floating World shows deep similarities—in its themes, structure, and even characters—to his later novel, The Remains of the Day, which centers on the reflections of a British butler living in the years after World War II and attempting to come to terms with his employment by Nazi collaborators. Ishiguro’s work also shares its thematic concern with memory and guilt with works by his contemporary, Ian McEwan. An Artist of the Floating World () is a novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The best novels: No 94 – An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro () Kazuo Ishiguro’s study of guilt, ageing and solitude in postwar, post-imperial Japan is a tour de force of.