An Artist of the Floating World
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Герой романа - один из самых знаменитых живописцев довоенной Японии - тихо доживает свои дни и мечтает лини, удачно выдать замуж дочку. Но в воспоминаниях он по-прежнему там, в веселых кварталах старого Токио, в зыбком, сумеречном мире приглушенных страстей, дискуссий о красоте и потаенных удовольствий...
In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at post-war Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviours, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the nightlife who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war. But the war is over. Japan lost, Ono's wife and son have been killed, and many young people blame the imperialists for leading the country to disaster. What's left for Ono? Ishiguro's treatment of this story earned a 1986 Whitbread Prize.