Being around books as much as I am I should have been aware. Published as long ago as 1988, and made into a movie, still I didn't know. When M. lent me a book by Kazuo Ishiguro, lamely I assumed it would be about Japan. Duhh! Nobel Literature Prize winner Ishiguro moved from Japan to England when we was five and writes in English about England.
Remains of the Day, is tutorial on what makes a good butler. That is the means Ishiguro uses to reflect on life choices and cultural and societal changes. Set in 1956, Stevens, the butler, reflects on his life and decisions, particularly events in the 1930s. Melancholy about much of the past, he decides to make the best of the future, The Remains of the Day. It's remarkably engaging for a book in which almost nothing happens. Of course, things have happened in the past on which Stevens reflects at length.
So, I'm happy to have finally read it!
Takk for alt,
Al
PS Future blog posts will contain more stories about Frode Jespersen.
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