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I’ve just read The Remains of The Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Indeed, I found it quite difficult to put the novel down over the past few days; that is to say, I enjoyed it quite a bit.
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There really is something magical happening with the prose in this novel. There’s a sort of detached melancholy looming in between the text, and the memories he relates thus shine through with almost ludicrous brilliance. Stevens has so deluded himself about his relationship with Miss Kenton that it hits the reader like a train wreck when he finally acknowledges the heartbreak in seeing her moved on from him.
I love too how Stevens provides a really unique lense with which to view class struggle in England and throughout the West. I really appreciated reading this directly after Pride & Prejudice, it helped further my understanding of the sort of gradual change from aristocracy and lordship to capitalism. Stevens points out this almost obliging level of loyalty to an economic system that thoroughly abuses him, a system in which practically no merit decides who has and who hasn’t, yet he remains unflinchingly loyal. His attitude rings true even today as we see those most abused by capitalism and unchecked corporate power as often being its most ardent supporters.
I *loved* reading this book and I loved the sort of state of dread — interrupted often with moments of pure hilarity — the writing induced in me.
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Indeed, I found it quite difficult to put the novel down over the past few days; that is to say, I enjoyed it quite a bit.
——-
There really is something magical happening with the prose in this novel. There’s a sort of detached melancholy looming in between the text, and the memories he relates thus shine through with almost ludicrous brilliance. Stevens has so deluded himself about his relationship with Miss Kenton that it hits the reader like a train wreck when he finally acknowledges the heartbreak in seeing her moved on from him.
I love too how Stevens provides a really unique lense with which to view class struggle in England and throughout the West. I really appreciated reading this directly after Pride & Prejudice, it helped further my understanding of the sort of gradual change from aristocracy and lordship to capitalism. Stevens points out this almost obliging level of loyalty to an economic system that thoroughly abuses him, a system in which practically no merit decides who has and who hasn’t, yet he remains unflinchingly loyal. His attitude rings true even today as we see those most abused by capitalism and unchecked corporate power as often being its most ardent supporters.
I *loved* reading this book and I loved the sort of state of dread — interrupted often with moments of pure hilarity — the writing induced in me.
#entertainment
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