Name: An Artist of the Floating World
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Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
ISBN: 9780143124283

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kazuo Ishiguro

Illustrated by

Jessica Hische

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

19.8x13.7x2.3 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN

0143124285

ISBN13

9780143124283

Synopsis "An Artist of the Floating World "

The Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel by 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Kazuo Ishiguro From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar in the world of type design and illustration, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's recent film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility. With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hische's hugely popular Daily Drop Cap blog, the Penguin Drop Caps series launches with six perennial favorites to give as elegant gifts, or to showcase on your own shelves. I is for Ishiguro. Masuji Ono saw misery in his homeland and became unwilling to spend his skills solely in the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he envisioned a strong and powerful nation of the future, and he put his painting to work in the service of the movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Masuji Ono struggles through the spiritual wreckage of that war, his memories of the "floating world" of his youth, full of pleasure and promise, serve as an escape from, a punishment for--and a justification of--his entire life. Drifting without honor in Japan's postwar society, which indicts him for its defeat and reviles him for his aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being. An Artist of the Floating World is a sensual and profoundly convincing portrait of the artist as an aging man. At once a multigenerational tale and a samurai death poem written in English, it is also a saga of the clash of the old and new orders, blending classical and contemporary iconography with compassion and wit.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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Kazuo Ishiguro (Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, nacido el 8 de noviembre de 1954 en Nagasaki, Japón) es un novelista británico de origen japonés, reconocido por su estilo sobrio y su exploración de la memoria, el tiempo y la identidad. Se trasladó al Reino Unido en su infancia y estudió en la Universidad de Kent y la Universidad de East Anglia. Desde su debut con A Pale View of Hills (1982), ha construido una obra literaria marcada por narradores introspectivos y estructuras cuidadosamente contenidas, consolidándose como una figura clave de la literatura contemporánea.

Es autor de novelas ampliamente reconocidas como The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go y Klara and the Sun, en las que combina elementos realistas con sutiles incursiones en lo distópico o especulativo. En 2017 recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura, destacando su capacidad para revelar “el abismo bajo nuestro sentido ilusorio de conexión con el mundo”. Su obra ha sido traducida a numerosos idiomas y varias de sus novelas han sido adaptadas al cine, reforzando su impacto cultural a nivel global.

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