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An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

3.78/5 (29414 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 206 pages

Publication:: 2005

Publisher:: Faber and Faber

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0571225365

ISBN13:: 9780571225361

kindle Asin:: B008WOUI5I

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

3.78/5 (29414 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 206 pages

Publication:: 2005

Publisher:: Faber and Faber

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0571225365

ISBN13:: 9780571225361

kindle Asin:: B008WOUI5I

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