What's it like to read kazuo ishiguro's

Kazuo ishiguro's first work, Shadows in the Far Mountains.

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The whole story begins with Nikki's visit to Confucius and ends with Nikki's departure from Confucius five days later, with the memory of Nagasaki in the middle.

The novel unfolds in two parallel lines. The second line is that Zi Yue now lives in the countryside of England. Her daughter Nicky came to visit Confucius and stayed for five days. Confucius had an eldest daughter, Jingzi, who hanged herself.

Among them, Jingzi is the daughter of Zi Yue and her Japanese husband. After her husband died in World War II, Zi Yue immigrated to England with Jingzi. Nikki is the daughter of Zi Yue and her English husband.

The main line is that during the five days when Nikki came to Ziyue, Ziyue remembered the past in Nagasaki about twenty years ago. In Nagasaki, Zi Yue met single mother Sasuke and her daughter Wan Li. Zhen Zi and Wan Li immigrated to the United States with an American, but actually Wanli was unwilling to immigrate to the United States.

When I read the whole work, as the title shows, I was left with only a vague impression and a faint feeling. There are not many descriptive words in the novel that introduce the background of the story and the ins and outs of the characters, and it is not even a complete story. When I read the whole novel, my only thought was how kazuo ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature last year. Because both the language and the story, the novel is so dull.

About the last paragraph at the end, my feeling at that time was:

Isn't this the so-called rotten tail in TV series? But magically, I didn't feel any loss at the moment I closed the page. In the past, every time I finished reading a book, I always habitually felt lost, because the story is over, and after reading that book, I don't have to read it anymore. And "The Far Mountains" doesn't have a complete story, just like small pieces. There is a sense of expectation after reading it, although it is clear that there will never be a sequel. But this feeling is naturally like what I will expect from tomorrow's life after today's life. This is a literature about the pain of war, a diaspora literature, but what I experience is not endless pain but life goes on. In addition, I was surprised that I read a Chinese translation, but I never thought of stopping to give up reading. No matter how wonderful the plot was, I always had the idea of not continuing. I don't think it's the translation level, but I guess it's the spiritual power behind the work.

The above is my first feeling about The Shadows in the Far Mountains.

The second feeling came about when I was writing this feeling two days ago.

The novel does not describe the war, the face of Nagasaki after the war, or the tragic state of the characters after the war. The characters in the novel never talk about war, but respond to the horror of war with superficial calmness and strong silence, which is an abnormal calmness and restraint. Seemingly didn't cry, in fact, not crying doesn't mean not sad, just like laughing doesn't mean happy. To borrow a sentence from 1988, "Adults just forbear, just busy with their own affairs, just pretending to be strong to bear the burden of age, and adults will also suffer."

Here, I remember that Han Han once wrote in Confessions and Farewell, "I especially like MV-style emotional paragraphs, and I think all emotions should be generated in the course of things. For example, if a person's favorite dog dies, the traditional way to deal with it is nothing more than: you call the dog's name and it doesn't appear; Looking at its photos, you look particularly lost; It makes you feel sad to watch other people's dogs running outside. And I might deal with it this way: the owner of the dog has obsessive-compulsive disorder. He goes up fourteen steps every day, and every time he goes up the tenth step, he goes up two steps at a time at the last four steps. But the day his dog died, he walked up the last four steps step by step. After that, this mood will be over, and no other explanations will be made, because those bridges will be very sour. " In fact, this is a kind of shock that "silence is better than sound".

In addition, some people speculate that Sasuke is Confucius and Wan Li is Jingzi. In the memory narration of the novel, Confucius separated himself from the narrator and pretended to tell "other people's stories" as a bystander. In fact, this is because "some people feel that their experiences are too painful or unbearable to tell, so they borrow other people's stories to tell their own stories." However, at the end of the novel, Confucius said, "Jingzi was very happy that day. We took the cable car. " P237, at this point, her elaborate story of the bystander was exposed. Confucius calmly recalled such a long time, but his own words debunked the truth. He wants to be ironic and pathetic, ridiculous and sad, mixed with unspeakable helplessness. The impact of this ending is really powerful. If you have seen the movie Invisible Guest, you will definitely feel this power better. In the movie, in order to cover up the fact of his murder, the hero switches his position with his girlfriend in the murder with the intention of framing his girlfriend. I remember watching movies, I always believed that the hero's statement was all the facts. Until the moment of the final exposure, it was a bolt from the blue or a blow. Of course, it is not only the hero who is shocked, but also the audience. Perhaps the terrible thing about this dormant explosive influence is not how powerful it is, but that Confucius' heart has left a thorn in the reader's heart, and this pain has to be endured silently. What is even more frightening is that after Confucius told the truth, the narrative style remained the same, and kazuo ishiguro never intended to make a sensation. The calmer, the more terrible, the more terrible and the more cruel.

These are my personal feelings.

Finally, kazuo ishiguro's Nobel Prize acceptance speech ended. "His novels show an abyss with great emotional power under the illusion that we are connected with the world."