kazuo ishiguro presentation
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Presentation about a contemporary literature author Kazuo Ishiguro. His biography, some of his works are presented brieflyTRANSCRIPT
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KAZUO ISHIGUROKAZUO ISHIGURO
Prepared by Milda StockunaiteEnglish philology and Spanish language student
Year 3Faculty of Humanities, Šiauliai University
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BiographyBiography• Born in Nagasaki,
Japan, in 1954.• Before attending the
university, he worked as a grouse-beater on the Queen Mother’s estate at Balmoral.
• He enrolled at the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and Philosophy.
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• He worked as a community worker in Glasgow.• Ishiguro earned a bachelor degree of arts with honors
in philosophy and literature.• He completed his master of arts in creative writing at
the University of East Anglia.
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• He worked as a social worker until he was able to make a living as a writer.
• He has been writing full-time since 1982.
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• His first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982), narrated by a Japanese widow living in England, draws on the destruction and rehabilitation of Nagasaki.
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• Kazuo Ishiguro’s most famous novel is The Remains of the Day.
• The novel won the Booker Prize.
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BibliographyBibliographyNovels•A Pale View of Hills (1982)•An Artist of the Floating World (1986)•The Remains of the Day (1989)•The Unconsoled (1995)•When We Were Orphans (2000)•Never Let Me Go (2005)
Screenplays• A Profile of Arthur J. Mason
(Original Screenplay for Channel 4)[13][14] (1984)
• The Gourmet (Original Screenplay for the BBC; the script was later published in Granta 43)[15] (1987)
• The Saddest Music in the World (Original Story) (2003)
• The White Countess (Original Screenplay) (2005)
Short Fiction•Three short stories in Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers (1981): A Strange and Sometimes Sadness, Waiting for J and Getting Poisoned•A Family Supper - short story first published in 1982•A Village After Dark•Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (2009)
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• Ishiguro's novels are characterized by the way that the calm expository style and seemingly unimportant concerns of the narrators disguise a world fraught by regrets, unresolved emotional conflicts, and a deep yearning to recapture (and make sense of) the past.
• Ishiguro’s novels deal with self-deception, regret, and personal reflection.
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The Remains of the DayThe Remains of the Day• The Remains of the Day
has become a modern classic after it won not only the Man Booker Prize in 1989, but also was turned into a film. In 1993.
• Historical context is a key aspect of The Remains of the Day, and in this case, the novel takes place during the years leading up to World War II.
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• Stevens' deep examination of the aristocracy's place in England suggests that the novel is less a critique of imperialism and more a struggle to evaluate its legacy.
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Never Let Me GoNever Let Me Go• Never Let Me Go
addresses some contemporary issues.
• Never Let Me Go was extremely well-received critically, and is included in the curriculum of many high-school and college courses.
• It was adapted into a film by Mark Romanek in 2010.
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• Ishiguro highlights many forms of willful ignorance, of issues social (like the organ donations) and personal (like sex and virginity).
• The most common objection raised to cloning and genetic engineering––both in Never Let Me Go and in general––is that it involves 'playing God.'
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ReferencesReferences
1. http://literature.britishcouncil.org/kazuo-ishiguro 2. http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4456/Ishiguro-Kazuo.html 3. http://www.authortrek.com/kazuo_ishiguro_page.html 4. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/13/kazuo.ishiguro 5. http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4456/Ishiguro-Kazuo.html 6. http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/remains/context.html 7. http://www.enotes.com/remains-day 8. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/29/never-let-me-go-
kazuo-ishiguro 9. http://novelinsights.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/never-let-me-go-
by-kazuo-ishiguro/
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KAZUO ISHIGUROKAZUO ISHIGURO
Prepared by Milda StockunaiteEnglish philology and Spanish language student
Year 3Faculty of Humanities, Šiauliai University