NO. 1 17 "Don't forget" kazuo ishiguro, England

Out of curiosity, I finished reading Long Day and began to read other works by kazuo ishiguro, among which the title "Don't forget, don't lose" suddenly caught my attention. After searching, I found that the book scored very high, so I began to read it.

Text:1954165438+10.8, kazuo ishiguro was born in Nagasaki. 1960 moved to Britain with his family, graduated from Kent University and the University of East Anglia, and 1982 obtained British citizenship. From 65438 to 0983, he began to publish novels, the main works of which are Mountain Colors, Ukiyo-e Painters and The Long Day Will Come to an End. He has won many awards, such as Booker Prize in 1989, Knight Medal of Nobel Prize in Literature, Medal of British Empire and French Art and Literature in 20 17, Biennial Award of the First Dayi Literature Award, etc. , together with Rudy and Naipaul, is called "the Three Immigrants in English Literature".

Kazuo ishiguro's dream is to be a rock singer. His idol is leonard cohen, and he especially likes Bob Dylan. Despite his ambition, kazuo ishiguro did not enter the music world and became an ideal rock singer. Shihei also likes jazz. He once wrote lyrics for jazz singer Stacey Kent. Kazuo ishiguro's novel Don't Lose or Forget is actually the title of a song in a jazz album lent to kazuo ishiguro by Haruki Murakami.

The story of this novel takes place in fictional Britain in the 1990s. Kathy recalled her first-person experience of growing up in Holsjo with Tommy and Ruth. In a certain future, medical technology will develop rapidly. In order to treat diseases and prolong people's life, people cloned a group of people by gene technology as materials for organ transplantation. Because of the kindness of human beings, they are placed in closed schools for education. These children grow up like normal people. They laugh, abuse and are carefree. On Christmas Eve every year, everyone is scrambling to create works, and the selected excellent works will be brought to the exhibition. As children grow up and understand, seemingly calm and normal life becomes more and more strange. When they find someone visiting outside the school, they will run away in fear. When the children are dancing happily, the teacher next to them has a complicated expression. Looking at innocent children, a teacher can no longer hide anything and tell the truth. They also gradually realize that they are clones, and they have only two futures: nursing or donating organs. After a few years, the nurses still have to donate, and they silently accepted this doomed fate. It is said that if two people can prove that they love each other, they can apply for a three-year delay in donation. The protagonist ran around looking for permission, and the result was empty. The three friends of the love triangle in the book, Ruth completed the third donation and Tommy completed the fourth donation. After twelve years as a nurse, Kathy will also start donating until the end.

The world outlook expressed in Don't Lose and Don't Forget combines the characteristics of Japanese culture and British culture: they do their jobs under the hierarchical system and abide by their duties. It is estimated that kazuo ishiguro was born in Japan and grew up in England. The characters in the author's novels also have the same temperament and characteristics, which are expressed everywhere: no matter what kind of pain we suffer, no matter what kind of tragic experience we encounter, no matter what kind of freedom we are not, we will live in the cracks of fate, accept everything that fate has given us, and make unremitting efforts to find dreams and hopes in a narrow living space.

I'm not entirely sure about the author's intention, but I think this is the central idea of the story. Kazuo ishiguro once said in an interview: "No matter what kind of pain people suffer, no matter what kind of misery they encounter, no matter what kind of freedom they are, they will live in the cracks of fate and accept everything it gives them. People make unremitting efforts to find dreams and hopes in such a narrow living space. This kind of person always interests me more than those who undermine the constitution and rebel. " Not everyone is happy to accept this view, but life will always experience some helplessness and loss. The grand and ethereal external world will eventually become a distant shadow of life, and only true and dependent emotions can roll forever in memory.

The life span of human cloning is limited to the donation time after three or four times, which is short and insignificant. Stubborn life in the cracks of the times, no matter what kind of blows and misfortunes, still grow up. A hundred years of life is like a blink of an eye. No matter how deep you live, you will eventually blow through the sand like the wind. There are no traces, only memories rolling in my mind.

Summary: life is like a long river, winding forward and unable to turn back. In life, you may encounter all kinds of frictions and bumps, which will only exist in a memory, and they will all become part of your life and memory.

Excerpts from good sentences:

1.？ For life, acceptance is the best gentleness, whether it is accepting a person's appearance or accepting a person's disappearance.

The biggest regret in the world is that we can start well, but we can't say goodbye well.

If a person is afraid to show his "bad" in front of another person, then this person's "good" is suspicious. Only completely relaxed love can accept all the good and bad of a person and become a life of sharing weal and woe.

4.？ The separation and reunion in this world is a weak water for three thousand years, which is hard to break. It was the mermaid who shed pearl-like tears in the moon-like green ocean, and the blue fields breathed their jadeite to the sun. No one knew how much they owed.

5.？ The most important thing in a person's life is himself. It's just that many people can't tell what is worthy of themselves and what is selfish.

6.？ But in fact, I think the situation of separating us is already very strong, and it only takes such a small thing to complete the task. If we could understand this at that time-who knows? Maybe, we will hug each other harder.

7.？ You have to accept that sometimes things are like this in the world. People's views, their feelings, one side, the other side. It's just that you happen to grow up at some point in the process.

8.？ I always feel that I don't know where there is such a river, and the current is very urgent. There are two people in the water, trying to catch each other. They tried to hug each other tightly, but in the end they couldn't bear it. The current is really too fast. They had to let go and disband. I think we are. It's a pity, Kathy, because we have been in love all our lives. But in the end we can't be together forever.