In his acceptance speech for the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro gracefully negotiates revealing his personal past and sharing his take on the political present. He does so at a pace that makes it easy to listen to his insights about changing cultures, the power of memory, and the efforts needed to attend to relationships that make life matter. At the podium, he tells stories of his childhood, adolescence, and early years as a writer, and of his marriage, several home offices, and, always, his need for a continuing relationship with literature. His wit is dry, apparently easygoing, and well delivered in unexpected nonpareils; his call for diversity, specific and actionable. This speech is accessible to all listeners older than 12 and is of import to those who know Ishiguro’s body of work and those for whom the attraction is a short listen. F.M.R.G. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017, in an elegant, clothbound edition.
* * * *In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction and his mastery at uncovering our illusory sense of connection with the world. In the eloquent and candid lecture he delivered upon accepting the award, Ishiguro reflects on the way he was shaped by his upbringing, and on the turning points in his career-“small scruffy moments . . . quiet, private sparks of revelation”-that made him the writer he is today.
* * * *With the same generous humanity that has graced his novels, Ishiguro here looks beyond himself, to the world that new generations of writers are taking on, and what it will mean-what it will demand of us-to make certain that literature remains not just alive, but essential.
* * * *An enduring work on writing and becoming a writer, by one of the most accomplished novelists of our generation.
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* * * *In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction and his mastery at uncovering our illusory sense of connection with the world. In the eloquent and candid lecture he delivered upon accepting the award, Ishiguro reflects on the way he was shaped by his upbringing, and on the turning points in his career-“small scruffy moments . . . quiet, private sparks of revelation”-that made him the writer he is today.
* * * *With the same generous humanity that has graced his novels, Ishiguro here looks beyond himself, to the world that new generations of writers are taking on, and what it will mean-what it will demand of us-to make certain that literature remains not just alive, but essential.
* * * *An enduring work on writing and becoming a writer, by one of the most accomplished novelists of our generation.
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs: The Nobel Lecture
The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017, in an elegant, clothbound edition.
* * * *In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction and his mastery at uncovering our illusory sense of connection with the world. In the eloquent and candid lecture he delivered upon accepting the award, Ishiguro reflects on the way he was shaped by his upbringing, and on the turning points in his career-“small scruffy moments . . . quiet, private sparks of revelation”-that made him the writer he is today.
* * * *With the same generous humanity that has graced his novels, Ishiguro here looks beyond himself, to the world that new generations of writers are taking on, and what it will mean-what it will demand of us-to make certain that literature remains not just alive, but essential.
* * * *An enduring work on writing and becoming a writer, by one of the most accomplished novelists of our generation.
* * * *In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction and his mastery at uncovering our illusory sense of connection with the world. In the eloquent and candid lecture he delivered upon accepting the award, Ishiguro reflects on the way he was shaped by his upbringing, and on the turning points in his career-“small scruffy moments . . . quiet, private sparks of revelation”-that made him the writer he is today.
* * * *With the same generous humanity that has graced his novels, Ishiguro here looks beyond himself, to the world that new generations of writers are taking on, and what it will mean-what it will demand of us-to make certain that literature remains not just alive, but essential.
* * * *An enduring work on writing and becoming a writer, by one of the most accomplished novelists of our generation.
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BN ID: | 2940171938338 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
Publication date: | 12/26/2017 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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