An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro In theface of the misery in his homeland the artist Masuji Onowas unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebrationof physical beauty. Instead he put his work in the serviceof...
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro 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.
- שם: An Artist Of The Floating World
- מחבר: Kazuo Ishiguro
- תחום: סיפורת, English
- מקט: ORB-859298
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