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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
4 ⭐️
Si potrebbe dire che esiste una letteratura onirica che parla di sogni e un’altra che parla di cosa succede durante il sogno e, soprattutto, quando ti svegli. O pensi di esserti svegliato.
Ishiguro ha deciso di fonderle tutte e tre.
Trasmette perfettamente quella sensazione- che è quasi un fastidio- di continua dimenticanza, di tiepida sfuggevolezza.
In questo mondo incrinato i personaggi del romanzo sono incapaci di attingere alla memoria, di diminuire la discrepanza tra inconsistenza e realtà per mancanze di cause ed effetto.
Il punto di vista centrale è assente, inghiottito in un oblio anonimo.
È normale sentirsi spaesati (lo stesso protagonista naufraga tra case e strade sconosciute e senza nome), ancora più strepitoso rendersi conto del secondo elemento, ben più importante: l’intimità dell’intreccio è spaventosamente familiare.
Come ha detto lo stesso Ishiguro:
«Yeah, I wouldn’t take it to the beach.».
Si potrebbe dire che esiste una letteratura onirica che parla di sogni e un’altra che parla di cosa succede durante il sogno e, soprattutto, quando ti svegli. O pensi di esserti svegliato.
Ishiguro ha deciso di fonderle tutte e tre.
Trasmette perfettamente quella sensazione- che è quasi un fastidio- di continua dimenticanza, di tiepida sfuggevolezza.
In questo mondo incrinato i personaggi del romanzo sono incapaci di attingere alla memoria, di diminuire la discrepanza tra inconsistenza e realtà per mancanze di cause ed effetto.
Il punto di vista centrale è assente, inghiottito in un oblio anonimo.
È normale sentirsi spaesati (lo stesso protagonista naufraga tra case e strade sconosciute e senza nome), ancora più strepitoso rendersi conto del secondo elemento, ben più importante: l’intimità dell’intreccio è spaventosamente familiare.
Come ha detto lo stesso Ishiguro:
«Yeah, I wouldn’t take it to the beach.».
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Maddeningly slow - nothing ever happens! However, the expectation of something happening is always just around round the corner. It sticks in your head. I hated it so much, I liked it.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I found this slow and bleak from the off but compelling enough to read on for a while. Then I read lots of reviews mentioning that they'd given it stars for being by Ishiguro, and I realised that was the main reason I was reading on when I was really quite bored. In my opinion, you shouldn't read on or give credit for this reason, so I decided to free myself from it.
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Since Ishiguro is so concerned with how personal accountability intersects with personal and public delusionality, it only makes sense that he should have written a book in which a man approaches a public concert and keynote–and his family life–with the reckless, responsibility-free logic of dreams (stand up to give a speech and find yourself naked; turn into a pig; go backwards every time you step forwards, and why the hell not? And while you’re at it, neglect your child! Break every promise you make! Ignore a man’s getting his leg sawed off in front of you! LIFE IS BUT A DREAM!). Or, perhaps, a book in which a public figure should look about him and see all people and events only as elements of his own, all-important emotional life, while the public, simultaneously, view him only as a means toward forwarding their own agendas: public life is an interface at which people cease to recognize other people as people; there is only the I! Or, perhaps, a book that satirizes the idea that dreams have any meaning at all, by presenting the poverty of choice and experience that dreams represent. Or perhaps, a book that proves that ALL meaning can be found in dreams and the subconscious, giving us the dream-life of a character and practically begging us to deduce a coherent biography from the symbols!
More thoughts here:
http://alisonkinney.com/2014/01/12/kazuo-ishiguro-the-unconsoled/
Thanks!
More thoughts here:
http://alisonkinney.com/2014/01/12/kazuo-ishiguro-the-unconsoled/
Thanks!
This book got on my nerves for being so boring. I made it to page 62 and then gave up.
A disappointment after just having read 'Never let me go', which I really liked.
A disappointment after just having read 'Never let me go', which I really liked.
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated