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When BobDylan received Nobel Prize for Literature a year ago, reactions Kontroversaus: On one hand re was enthusiasm for courage and Dieunkonventionelle decision-making pleasure of Nobel Prize committee, on or SeiteEntsetzen about Extension of literary term and appreciation of EinesMannes, who has made a name for himself above all as a musician.
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This year, Literaturexpertenund bookmakers assumed that such an experiment would not repeat mselves and that Einunumstrittener candidate would receive literary prize: a Schriftstellerinoder a writer with a broad oeuvre and a conventional Understanding of literature. At top of favourite list were known names such as JapanerHaruki Murakami, Canadian Margaret Atwood and Israeli Amos Oz.
Of course, she deserves all prize. But he has received anor: very unknown in Germany, more esteemed author KazuoIshiguro in English speaking area. The 62-year-old Briton with Japanese roots was born on 8 November 1954 in Nagasaki. As a five-year-old he moved with his family to England, where he later studied philosophy and literature as a young adult. Ishiguronahm’s English nationality, after his studies in London, went to Undbegann to engage in his literary work with his British japanischenHintergrund.
The transience of all being
Not only refore DieWahl Ishiguros perfectly makes sense: Briton encircles in his eight novels Undvier screenplays classic-humanistic mes, transforms between a European and Asian culture concept, reflected in his LakonischenGeschichten Repressed traumas of Second World War and has received bereitsbedeutende prices for it. His notoriety among literary friends, who could not change anything at SeinemNischendasein, makes him a perfect compromise candidate who does not disappoint anyone, but also nobody really happy machendürfte.
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If re is a ästischesPrinzip with which Ishiguros work could be described, n it would be dasjapanische basic feeling of melancholy associated with term “mono no aware”. This is a sensibility for She world, a form of world pain that has shaped Japanese literature for centuries and is also felt in books of Ishiguro – in form of a quiet, psychologically fine timbrierten and Unobtrusive language. Only vordergründiggeht it in Ishiguros literature about search for homeland and security. Wersich more closely with her, he notes that his works Revolve AllgemeineMenschheitskonflikte: The individual search for meaning, Scheiternan of his own demands, transience of all his and Resultierendeinnere emptiness.
Loyalty instead of love
Especially wirdgerade latter motif in Ishiguros most important and probably most successful work, 1989 published novel What remained of Tageübrig. The text is 1989 published and same year with Demwichtigen Booker Prize Ausgezeichnetworden. In addition, story 1993 was filmed, with Emma Thompson and AnthonyHopkins in main roles. The book is written like almost all works of Ishiguro in Derich perspective. The text depicts fate of a butler who lives on an English estate and dedicates all his existence to his service Lord. Any kind of individuality will benefit Loyalitätsprinzipsaufgegeben.
In a quiet, for n 35-year-old author’s surprising age-wise language, which is sometimes reminiscent of Dostoevsky, subordination of butler is nobly exaggerated: it is considered alsSinnbild for need for belonging, to Homeland, to InneremFrieden. To achieve this self-confidence, butler is ready to abandon his intimstenBedürfnisse: for example, love of a woman. Is his life damitgescheitert? Ishiguro leaves such questions of existence in unknown. SeineFiguren serve as identification objects to stage human existence as a ständigenAbwägungsprozess, as a series of compromises, which are not about correct decisions, but merely about Wenigerfatale.
