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glenberger 's review for:
The Unconsoled
by Kazuo Ishiguro
DNF: 50%
Perhaps I'll come back to it, but what would be the point?
Absolutely, I enjoyed what I read. I loved how Ishiguro captured so many aspects of dreaming that I haven't seen depicted so accurately before. Dream-logic, dream-anxiety, dream-tasks. So a reader can slowly form a portrait of the life of the dreamer, even though we never encounter him (Ryder, the narrator, is surely the dreamer, but is he even a famous musician in real life?)
But, like apparently many other readers, the relentless, interminable dream-story just becomes too much. A 340 page book of this makes sense, but baffled why Ishiguro (and presumably his editors) signed off on such a lengthy tome.
Perhaps I'll come back to it, but what would be the point?
Absolutely, I enjoyed what I read. I loved how Ishiguro captured so many aspects of dreaming that I haven't seen depicted so accurately before. Dream-logic, dream-anxiety, dream-tasks. So a reader can slowly form a portrait of the life of the dreamer, even though we never encounter him (Ryder, the narrator, is surely the dreamer, but is he even a famous musician in real life?)
But, like apparently many other readers, the relentless, interminable dream-story just becomes too much. A 340 page book of this makes sense, but baffled why Ishiguro (and presumably his editors) signed off on such a lengthy tome.