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Original Title:	An Artist of the Floating World
ISBN:	0571225365 (ISBN13: 9780571225361)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Masuji Ono
Setting:	Japan
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (1986), Whitbread Award for Novel and Book of the Year (1986)

An Artist of the Floating World Paperback | Pages: 206 pages

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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.

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Title	:	An Artist of the Floating World
Author	:	Kazuo Ishiguro
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 206 pages
Published	:	March 3rd 2005 by Faber and Faber (first published 1986)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Asia. Literary Fiction

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I really enjoyed this. Powerful, subtle and complex, like many other Ishiguro novels this examines memory and the insufficiency of it.

An Artist of the Floating World is a nice pleasant read. Although Ishiguro had not lived through this period and lives in England, he evokes the languid rhythms of life in post-war Japan with panache. His protagonist addresses the reader in the second person over the entire book, telling us of his career as a propagandistic artist of pre-war Imperial Japan and his retirement. There is a marked similarity between Oji and the protagonist of The Remains of the Day, in that each had acted in morally

Did you ever wonder what it was like in Japan after its defeat in WW II? So here we are in Japan in 1947. Our main character, an older man and an artist, lost his wife in a stray bomb that also destroyed much of his home, and he also lost his only son in the war. But he still has two daughters; one married with a son, and one trying to get married, but shes getting a bit old for that time and culture; shes past her mid-20s.Japan was occupied by the United States, of course, and we imposed our

After reading Never Let Me Go, I swore that I would read more of Ishiguro's work. It was fate that I ran across An Artist of the Floating World at my Library. The novel isn't a particularly long one - coming in at a mere 206 pages. It was a breeze to get through.I'm noticing that with Ishiguro's narrators so far, the tone is very conversational. Throughout this book, the protagonist Masuji Ono, a retired artist, speaks intimately to the readerThroughout the book, Masuji Ono, the protagonist,

I really enjoyed this. Powerful, subtle and complex, like many other Ishiguro novels this examines memory and the insufficiency of it.

This is a quiet but accomplished novel about post-war Japan; of reconciling both the state and individual of the modern world, with the crimes and convictions of the past. The novel is a thematic precursor to Remains of the Day, published three years later, which similarly uses an unreliable first-person narrative to explore what it means to have lived an honourable life. An Artist of the Floating World is a far more subdued novel, with a greater specific cultural focus, and as a result, its

This was the first novel, by Kazuo Ishiguro, that I finished reading due to its seemingly familiar title mentioning "the Floating World" I first found in Ihara Saikaku's stories. From its 206 pages, I think, most readers should find reading it quite manageable as guaranteed by its Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1986. Reading it, as for me, was relatively enjoyable since I needed concentration in following various episodes and its key protagonist named Masuji Ono, the eminent