Kazuo Ishiguro (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Other Literary Forms

Three of Kazuo Ishiguro’s early short stories are collected in Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers (1981). Ishiguro has also written for literary journals and authored film scripts for television, among them A Profile of Arthur J. Mason (1984) and The Gourmet (1986).

Achievements

From the beginning, Ishiguro’s carefully crafted novels, with their themes of human dignity and loyalty pledged to dubious or ambiguous causes, have found great critical acclaim; however, it was only with The Remains of the Day,...

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