The Remains of the Day Pdf

ISBN: 0679731725
Title: The Remains of the Day Pdf
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Published Date: 1990
Page: 245

The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence. “An intricate and dazzling novel.” —The New York Times “Brilliant and quietly devastating.” —Newsweek “A virtuoso performance ... put on with dazzling daring and aplomb.” —The New York Review of Books “A perfect novel. I couldn’t put it down.” —Ann Beattie “The novel rests firmly on the narrative sophistication and flawless control of tone ... of a most impressive novelist.” —Julian Barnes

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize and the basis for an award-winning film.

This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

Nobel prize-winning author, for a reason! An engrossing 1st person narrative from the prototypical pre-WW2 British butler, about serving the "upper class", wasted lives, lack of emotional connectedness, and the fine line between humanitarian ideals and being duped by an evil Nazi regime. All the more incredible due to the Japanese ethnicity of the author, despite his upbringing in England. His 1st novel not set in Japan, but England, very deservedly earned him a Nobel prize in Literature this year. One of the best books you've never read....One of my favorites Beautifully restrained book. If you're looking for an author who holds your hold and forcefully tugs you through every emotion, every thought, and every conclusion, this isn't the book for you. But if you appreciate a stunningly subtle and yet laser precise portrayal of a man who has spent his days in the pursuit of "dignity" - another word for being emotionless - and who realizes too late that he gave his life to an employer who didn't deserve it and withheld his love from a woman who did, then pick this book up, savor it, and be prepared to laugh, cry, and think.A Moving Meditation on the Meaning of Life A beautifully written novel. This story of a repressed butler in pre-war Britain who placed loyalty to his employer and profession over his own happiness, in a setting very similar to Downton Abbey, is a moving mediation on the perils of letting one's life go by without fully paying attention, and subsuming one's passions for duty/ work.

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