Approaching kazuo ishiguro and His English and Japanese Literature

Approaching kazuo ishiguro and his English-style Japanese literature1954165438+108, kazuo ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan. 1960 moved to Britain with his family, graduated from the University of Kent 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 the Booker Prize in 1989, the Knights of Nobel Prize in Literature in 20 17, order of the british empire and French literature and art, and is called "the three outstanding English literary immigrants" together with Lucidi and Naipaul. Mr kazuo ishiguro said, "I like memories because they are the filters through which we look at our lives. Vague memories provide opportunities for self-deception. As a writer, I care more about what people tell me than what actually happens. He is very good at telling a person's life story in delicate words. Naturally, the ending is not all sad, but it is a brand-new life experience to follow the characters created by the author through the whole life.

1.？ Distant mountains and vague shadows

Memories appear after the years disappear, just like a straw floating in front of the drowning person, and self-redemption is just a symbol. The shadow of the distant mountains has been reprinted for thirty years in a row, enduring for a long time. Perhaps it is just plain writing, which is unique in Japanese literary narration, and plain writing contains deep affection.

? It's just that she hid the sadness and regret after the years passed away in another object she shaped in her heart-Sasuke.

I am ashamed to say that the first reading is only puzzled by the relationship between two people in the narrative process, as well as the mystery and various looming symbols carried by them. I never thought that illusion and reality would gradually merge.

? On the sad tone of bombing, a woman's suffering seems to be diluted in front of time, but she can't put the past behind her, and the pain of the past can't be alleviated, so she is forced to imagine a false object to bear it for her. Just like forcing out toxins, the mind is divided into two parts. Two people separated from hallucinations restore all kinds of past events from their first meeting, acquaintance and old friends through dialogue. Sometimes their practices and ideas are completely different, and this is the moment of contradiction and opposition. How to face it in the past and how to imagine another possibility now. In their long memories, both of them want to seek each other's shelter for the past, so as to gain inner comfort and falsely imply that they no longer care about other people's opinions.

Memory distorts people's past, and the protective mechanism of the brain allows us to weaken and transform the pain we have experienced and make it acceptable. The writer's excellent narrative technique makes all the puzzles come together at the last minute, which makes the inner feelings pour out and impact the readers.

Every picture in the past has changed since then, and every sentence is no longer euphemistic, just like tearing a wound and revealing the most straightforward and unobtrusive sting. It drives readers to chew every detail of the past with a little fear but an impulse. Long aftertaste. This should be the charm of masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.

2. "The long day will come to an end."

There is no denying that A Long Day will be a novel that can only be read in quiet moments. Not to mention the author's extremely accurate and vivid description of the old British aristocrats, but only the choice between work and feelings of managers. In order to inherit a trait called "dignity" that all great managers have, he hid his true feelings in an extremely restrained way and asked himself to provide impeccable service as an achievement.

Can this be regarded as a noble restraint? Then show respect for work and show a rational loyalty?

? After careful reading, we can find that when my father died, Manager Steven tried his best to hide it in front of the guests and insisted on providing the best service, because it was in line with my father's wishes, which definitely reflected the "dignity" characteristics of the great manager. In the face of the beloved Miss Kendall about to accept the proposal of others, the manager only showed some regret in a few seconds (in his own opinion, it may be a long time). In retrospect, he still thinks that choosing to serve the core figures who may affect the whole European history at that moment is the epitome and summary of all his work achievements in his life. In the face of the old gentleman's "amateur" goodwill being used as fascist propaganda, he still thinks that he has done his duty, but unconditionally complied with the wishes and pursuits of his employer.

? It is true that we can't criticize a person who is committed to providing absolute quality and loyal service, even if his employer makes a stupid decision because of a good but inappropriate personality.

But I think we have reason to re-examine the importance of honesty to ourselves. Even the manager himself can't really believe it. For twenty years, he has been trying to convince himself that these can only be used as an escape statement. Even if there is great sorrow in the face of his father's death and "heartbreak at that moment" in the face of the passing of love, the general manager can only keep touching it in the memory of twenty years until he finds a compromise.

Marquez said, "an honest lifestyle is actually doing what you want, eating when you are hungry, and not lying when you love."

? Born as a man, we should always cherish the best time in our life, even if it is only one evening, we should go to the seaside at the end of a long day and wait for the stars that may rise at night.

3. "Don't forget"

No one can distinguish such a boundary when the human cloning group used for medical treatment shows the emotional and spiritual core of natural human beings. This is a long-standing major ethical issue, but the author obviously doesn't want to make any judgment. Don't forget that all you have lost is a series of stories between Lucy, Tommy and Kathy. But all simple stories will be complicated by love. On campus, their artistic creation, their meeting in the gym by the pond and their private conversations, Hallsjo, their mature memories of sex and love, the beautiful tapes of Noveland in the lost corner, the cruelty of the truth in the ladies' booth, the embrace of the earth in the wind, the coming eternal parting and the summer washed by the sea.

As the translator said: When you and Kathy Station are in the wild, facing the barbed wire covered with garbage plastic bags, imagine that everything lost in your life is flooded by the sea. Whether you are 30 or 80, life is destined to experience those disappointments. A tape or the love of your life will never come back like this. It will scroll back and forth in your memory until the end of your memory. This oriental or English-style obedience and compromise also appears repeatedly in kazuo ishiguro's works. Maybe if we follow Kathy's footsteps through the age of 31, we will feel enough, and our lives are long enough. But all complicated things are made simple by love, aren't they? Try to guess and explore, just to love each other for another three years. This may not be sad, I think it should be eternal.

Finally, talk about reading and output. In fact, both are very private things. Reading is to wrap up what is absorbed from the outside world and then digest it bit by bit. Writing is to express what has been digested and derived in an appropriate way. Some people say that there is always a desire to write after reading too much, and they are noncommittal. Only by going further than this can you realize this wish and turn it into your own output. What you think in your mind is like a baby's embryonic form, blurred to the structure of limbs. Reading is to absorb nutrition, and writing is to incubate. The limbs grow slowly in the joints, meridians and fingers, and the baby is reborn from the embryonic form. This is a sacred period. Because of this, the author has always treated reading and writing with a sincere heart and is willing to make all efforts just to meet the life that may come to this world.