Wednesday, December 6, 2017

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017: Kazuo Ishiguro

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".

I have now read through "half of his novels published in English", i.e. four of his novels. I am not sure if anyone has ever been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature based on a smaller production, but after reading through some of his novels I have not seen a text more beautifully presented than what I have experienced in his novels. I would like to draw the attention to three of his novels presented in three very different historical periods of England, one contemporary (Never Let Me Go. – London : Faber & Faber, 2005), one by a butler reminiscing from the "glory" of the upper class England between the first- and second world war (The Remains of the Day. – London : Faber & Faber, 1989) and then the third from the rural England in the middle ages with ever ongoing conflicts between the Saxons and the Britons (The Buried Giant. – London : Faber & Faber, 2015)



The key is that Kazuo Ishiguro actually tells his story with the distinct language/dialects that was actually used during all these three historical periods and he does it with ease and an elegance that I for one has never ever experienced. Its as if he has been spending hours on mending and compiling each English word into a sentence not leaving anything to vagaries, his language is simply amazing - Kazuo Ishiguro is truly one of the most deserved Nobel Prize in Literature laureates ever, despite his somewhat minuscule production...

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