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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780679735878
ISBN: 0679735879
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: October 01, 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: October 01, 1996
Sales Rank: 119260
Studio: Vintage
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The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit.
"A work of great interest and originality.... Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all his own...frankly fantastic [and] fiercer and funnier than before."--The New Yorker
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just painful. i read it until the end just begging for some redeeming quality, but never found it. very happy to be through the book
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I suppose once one wins the Booker Prize and gets an OBE one can write (and have published) anything one wants. This book is the sort of thing that results from such plaudits. The first chapter reminds one of Kafka. The second chapter reminds one of...Kafka, and, to be sure, the last chapter reminds one of...Kafka. Yes, the novel and situations are rather "dreamlike." But for a true stylist of the oneiric, read Von Hofmannsthal's The Lord Chandos Letter. It's much better written and only 128 ... Read More
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The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro is a nightmare of a novel, and I mean that in the nicest way.
Everyone has a variation of these dreams: You're approaching end-of-semester finals and realize you've forgotten to attend one course, but being too embarrassed to admit it, plan to take the test anyway - if you can find the classroom. It's opening night of a production and, although you missed all the rehearsals, have no idea what you're supposed to do and everyone's mad at you, you're ... Read More
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I read 500+ pages waiting to find out WHY WHY WHY?!? I read voraciously, and it was tough to stop reading - the fastest 500 pages I've read in a long time - constantly wondering, WHY WHY WHY?!? And I was left without answers. Without LOTS of answers. I understand why the author did it. He is brilliant, and did convey a greater meaning (or at least, I found a greater meaning). But wow, he could have done that in 200 pages and I'd have been a lot less frustrated.
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one of the wildest, most extraordinary books i've ever read. brilliant writing, surreal, like really funny kafka. indescribable. a man lost in the world, time unhinged, events and reality bent slightly out of shape. will one day be recognized as a masterpiece (i hereby declare it one). bold art.
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