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   The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize -winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The protagonist, Stevens, is a butler with a long record of service at Darlington Hall, a fictitious stately home near Oxford, England.

   • Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

   • Publish Year: 1989

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3. thebookerprizes.com › the-booker-library › featuresHow The Remains of the Day changed the way I think about ...

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   Jan 9, 2023 · The voice of Stevens, the narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1989 Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, is so authentic and beautifully-sustained that you could believe it had always existed. It is as though, rather than having invented his protagonist, Ishiguro recorded a real English butler’s words and put them on the page.

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   Mar 1, 2024 · But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s ‘greatness’ – and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he has served. Kazuo Ishiguro’s moving portrait of the perfect English butler, his loyalty and his fading, insular world in post-war England, won the Booker Prize in 1989 .

5. thebookerprizes.com › the-booker-library › featuresA crash course in novel writing: how Kazuo Ishiguro wrote The ...

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   Mar 1, 2024 · Published by. Faber & Faber. Kazuo Ishiguro’s moving portrait of the perfect English butler, his loyalty and his fading, insular world in post-war England. Kazuo Ishiguro describes the intense four-week writing period behind his 1989 Booker Prize winner.

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   Aug 16, 2024 · The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro’s first novel set outside his native Japan and in his adopted England, is typical of Ishiguro’s style: delicate, detailed, and evocative prose which reveals the perceived flaws in a central character through that character’s first-person narrative.

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   However, this fact is merely tangential to the novel, which is primarily a story of human—not political—regret. Furthermore, though many of Ishiguro's works are branded as post-colonial novels, The Remains of the Day again does not fit into this classification: Ishiguro's Japanese heritage is not relevant to the plot nor to the narrative.

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   Did Kazuo Ishiguro invent a narrator?

   • The voice of Stevens, the narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1989 Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, is so authentic and beautifully-sustained that you could believe it had always existed. It is as though, rather than having invented his protagonist, Ishiguro recorded a real English butler’s words and put them on the page.

   How The Remains of the Day changed the way I think about England

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   Who is Kazuo Ishiguro?

   • Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘This is me in my study circa 1988, writing the book that went on to win the 1989 Booker Prize (The Remains of the Day). The places where I work today I prefer to keep private, but I can reveal they aren’t nearly as tidy as this room from back then.’

   How The Remains of the Day changed the way I think about England

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   Did Ishiguro write a real English butler?

   • It is as though, rather than having invented his protagonist, Ishiguro recorded a real English butler’s words and put them on the page. Stevens’ story, as he reflects from 1956 on his decades of service in a large house during a journey to find the former housekeeper who he may or may not love, conveys multitudes about England.

   How The Remains of the Day changed the way I think about England

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   Why did Ishiguro write a subversive novel?

   • This quietly subversive novel showed how the English obsession with class colours our emotions, speech and interactions. It changed the way I saw the country I thought I knew. Ishiguro, who was 32 when he completed a draft of the novel in four weeks, may baulk at such claims.

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9. www.sparknotes.com › lit › remainsThe Remains of the Day: Full Book Summary - SparkNotes

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   A short summary of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The Remains of the Day.