An Artist of The Floating World

An Artist of The Floating World

1986 • 208 pages

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Average rating3.9

15

Had this been my first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro I would have given this novel five stars. But after reading “A Pale View of Hills” and “The Remains of the Day” I am - how to say - used to his style and the relativity going on his books. Masuji Ono, the namegiving artist, is another typical protagonist of Ishiguro - as far as I have come to know his work. I deeply appreciate his style of telling the story from a purely subjective point of view. The way his characters relate stories from their past. ‘An Artist of the Floating World' worked great for me with Masuji's meandering voice and the hints at things and dark secrets that were yet in store for the reader. Yet somehow I was missing something here I found in his other works, or rather, I did not find more than what I had already found in his other works.

June 26, 2011