This seminar is dedicated to last year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the fascinating Japanese British writer Kazuo Ishiguro. We shall study a selection of his work in depth and in chronological order.
A Pale View of Hills (1982; his first novel)
The Remains of the Day (1989; winner of the Booker Prize)
Never Let Me Go (2005; a dystopian novel)
The Buried Giant (his most recent novel, set some 1,500 years ago).
Further texts are negotiable and to be announced.
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