Kazuo ishiguro, 20 17 Nobel Prize in Literature winner.

20 17, 1715 October, British writer kazuo ishiguro won the 20 17 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Awarding speech: He used great emotional power in his novels to let us cross the abyss between fantasy and the real world.

Representative works: Mountain Scenery, Ukiyo-e Painter and The Long Day Will End.

Kazuo ishiguro is different from other minority writers. Although he has a dual cultural background of Japan and Britain, he never manipulates the racial identity of Asians, but he is proud to be an internationalist writer. His novels have diverse themes, and the scenes and characters span the Eurasian civilization.

"Memory" is the theme that runs through kazuo ishiguro's creation.

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1954165438+1October 8th, 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 won many awards, such as 1989 Booker Prize, Knights of the British Empire and French art and literature. , together with Lucidi and Naipaul, is called "the three outstanding immigrants in English literature".

Kazuo ishiguro lived and grew up in Britain and was deeply influenced by British culture and tradition. He has gradually regarded himself as an authentic Englishman and a member of the "younger generation of writers". Therefore, the gradual decline of the British Empire and the shift of the focus of world literature writing also made him fall into deep inferiority.

The core factor that makes kazuo ishiguro fall into the dilemma of cultural identity marginalization is not his social and literary background-inferiority complex, but his personal background-rootless complex.

In fact, kazuo ishiguro knows almost nothing about modern Japan. His impression of Japan has always been based on childhood memories, but in reality Japan has developed rapidly.

Kazuo ishiguro has always had no sense of belonging to Japan. He never considers himself a real Japanese.

However, due to his Japanese background, the British have always excluded kazuo ishiguro from the mainstream British society. Kazuo ishiguro's Japanese background has drawn a gap between him and the mainstream British society.

This situation of living in the gap between Chinese and Western cultures makes kazuo ishiguro fall into a state of marginalization of cultural identity. He can neither find his own cultural foothold in Japan nor find his own cultural identity in Britain.

His works do not pay attention to the disasters of specific countries and nations, but try to explore people's inner feelings in the process of change.