An Artist of the Floating World
ISBN-13:
9780679722663
ISBN-10:
0679722661
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Kazuo Ishiguro
Publication date:
1989
Publisher:
Vintage International
Format:
Paperback
206 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780679722663
ISBN-10:
0679722661
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Kazuo Ishiguro
Publication date:
1989
Publisher:
Vintage International
Format:
Paperback
206 pages
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An Artist of the Floating World (ISBN-13: 9780679722663 and ISBN-10: 0679722661), written by authors
Kazuo Ishiguro, was published by Vintage International in 1989.
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II.
Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II.
Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.
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