The Unconsoled (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: An unnamed provincial city in central Europe
- Principal Characters: Ryder, Sophie, Boris, Mr. Brodsky, Miss Collins
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: Memory, Music or musicians, Pianos or pianists, Modernism
- Locales: Europe
As of 1989, with three increasingly well-received novels under his belt, Kazuo Ishiguro had yet to take a false step in a career that had gone from strength to strength and showed every promise of developing into a major body of work. A Pale View of Hills (1982) and An Artist of the Floating World (1986) were exquisitely wrought, dialogue-driven and delicate, foreshadowing their young author’s tour de force demonstration of his superb ear for social misunderstandings and things left unsaid in The Remains of the Day (1989). The first two novels were remarkable for...
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