Kazuo Ishiguro: Contemporary British Novelist, Screenwriter, Musician and Short Story Writer

We will take a deep dive into the works of Kazuo Ishiguro, a British novelist known for his "lyrical tales of regret fused with subtle optimism". He has won the Booker Prize (1989) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (2017); the Nobel Committee cited Ishiguro “who in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” Ishiguro is a "virtuoso of restraint"; on the surface, all is harmony, but deeper down lurks troubling and unresolved truths about humanity. We will read three of his novels: An Artist of the Floating World, Never Let Me Go, and Klara and the Sun; see the film: The Remains of the Day; and sample a collection of his Short Stories: Nocturnes.