Early Japanese Stories by Kazuo Ishiguro (.ePUB)
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Early Japanese Stories – A Special Edition Anthology by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Overview: Although Kazuo Ishiguro is considered one of the most representative novelists of contemporary literature in English, he was born in Japan and moved to England as a child. Japanese settings belong to the early years of his career as a writer. The Japanese images portrayed in the novels and short stories set in his homeland are inspired by his childhood memories, scenes watched in Japanese films and stereotypes known to Western readers, used in order to capture their attention.
In his early Japanese stories, Ishiguro reduces the distance between East and West with the particular use of the English language, described by the writer himself as a “pseudotranslation” or a “translationese” language. Setting his first novels and short stories in Japan, the writer plays the role of a translator translating into English a Japanese novel that doesn’t exist. Ishiguro acts as a translator using English to explain Japanese culture to his Western readers.
In 2000, Belmont Press published a special edition anthology of Kazuo Ishiguro’s earlier works which had until then never been collected into a book.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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