The Remains of the Day | Literary Precedents
The closest analog to Ishiguro's novel is Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier (1915), considered by many critics to be a flawless use of unreliable narration and depiction of the subjective human memory. Ford's narrator is forced to realize, through the course of relating his narrative, that he has completely misread events, and it is this final perception on the part of the narrator, as much as any of the events themselves, that lends to both books — Ford's and Ishiguro's — their psychological power.
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