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It was published in 1986 and shortlisted the same year for the. Ono was a famous and respected painter during his heyday, but one who used his art for propaganda and thus played a role in leading japan into world. In an artist of the floating world, kazuo ishiguro offers readers of the english language an authentic look at postwar japan, a floating world of changing cultural behaviors, shifting. After reading the buried giant and most of his other works, i stumbled upon an artist of the floating world and thought id give it a try and im glad i did but my final feelings were quite mixed.
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It is, at face value, deeply japanese, but many of its themes secrecy, regret, discretion, hypocrisy. Kazuo ishiguro is an author i feel more familiar with than i probably should. There was strange inflection and inconsistent pronunciation of japanese nameshonorifics. Listening loudly to spanishlanguage radio this is the third post in sounding out. Kazuo ishiguros second novel, an artist of the floating world 1986, is narrated retrospectively, from the postwar vantage of 194850, by the painter, masuji ono.
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