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michyms 's review for:
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
by Kazuo Ishiguro
As it says on the cover of the book, Nocturnes is a collection of five stories of music and nightfall. Just this description alone is enough to evoke a certain romanticism for me. The mood created here is almost like the balance of scales; there has to be just enough of everything to be perfect, otherwise it falls out of balance, tips over, and loses the magic it could have had.
Ishiguro managed this balance like a pro.
There is a silent beauty to the way the stories were told. It’s the kind of feeling you get when you see this quietly elegant lady walk into the room, wearing that simple black dress, but grabbing the attention of everyone in the room without purposely intending to do so.
The common thread throughout the five stories were not only in terms of music and nightfall. There was also the same train of sadness, the slight tinge of regret, a soft touch of melancholy to be found in all of them, perhaps some more than others. But when we think of it, these emotions and feelings are also the ones that are the easiest to be evoked from music and nightfall.
There is a certain kind of loneliness that nightfall presents, and yet it is the kind of loneliness where one is almost comfortable with. And music brings out this magic so well.
From: http://sushu.blog.com/2009/09/14/nocturnes-kazuo-ishiguro/
Ishiguro managed this balance like a pro.
There is a silent beauty to the way the stories were told. It’s the kind of feeling you get when you see this quietly elegant lady walk into the room, wearing that simple black dress, but grabbing the attention of everyone in the room without purposely intending to do so.
The common thread throughout the five stories were not only in terms of music and nightfall. There was also the same train of sadness, the slight tinge of regret, a soft touch of melancholy to be found in all of them, perhaps some more than others. But when we think of it, these emotions and feelings are also the ones that are the easiest to be evoked from music and nightfall.
There is a certain kind of loneliness that nightfall presents, and yet it is the kind of loneliness where one is almost comfortable with. And music brings out this magic so well.
From: http://sushu.blog.com/2009/09/14/nocturnes-kazuo-ishiguro/