Here I am presenting 20th century literature novel of "An Artist of the Floating word" by Kazuo Ishiguro

1. • Name :Trivedi Anjali P.
• Roll no. : 02
• Enrollment no. : 3069206420200022
• Subject : 20th
century Litrature 2 : From WW ll to end of the century
• Topic :An artist of the floating world
• Guide teacher : Dilip barad sir
• E-mail : anjali.trivedi305@gmail.com
“DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH”

2. AN ARTIST OF
THE FLOATING
WORLD
Ishiguro Kazuo

3. •ishiguro Kazuo is a British novelist screenwriter and short
mory writer. He is one of the most c contemporary fiction
authors in the English-speaking world having received four Man
Booker Pri nominations, and winning the 1989 award for his
novel The Remains of the Day

4. BIOGRAPHY
• Ishiguro was bom in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954. He came to Britain in 1960 when his
father began research at the National Institute of Oceanography, and was educated at a grammar
school for boys in Surrey
• Afterwards he worked as a grouse-beater for the Queen Mother at Balmoral before enrolling at
the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and Philosophy He was also employed as
a community worker in Glasgow (1976), and after graduating worked as a residential social worker
in London. He studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, a member at the
postgraduate course. He has been wrong full time since 1982 In 1983, shortly after the publication
of his first novel, Kazuo Ishiguro was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 Best of
Young British Writers
• Ishiguro has been marmed to Loma MacDougall, a social worke 1986, Now he lives in London with
his wife and daughter Naomi

5. CREATIVEWORK
• Ishiguro's novels are preoccupied by memories, their potential to digress
and distort, to forget and to silence, and above all to haunt
• The protagonists of his fiction seek to overcome loss (the personal loss of
family members and lovers; losses resulting from war) by making sense of
the past through acts of remembrance. Ishiguro's novels typically contain
characters that deceive, rather than reveal themselves through story
telling. His books are not attempts to render the past convincingly, but
rather to pursue how individuals interpret and (re)construct their past.

6. AWARDS
• 1982 Winifred Holtby Memonal Prize for A PaleView of Hills.
• 1983: Published in the Granta BestYoung British Novelists issue
• 1986:Whitbread Prize for An Artist of the Floating World
• 1989:Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day
• 1993:Published in the Granta BestYoung British Novelists issue
• 1995: OBE
• 1998 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres-
• 2005 Time magazine names Never Let Me Go on its list of the 100 greatest English language novels
since the magazine formed in1923.
• 2008.The Times named Ishiguro among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945

7. AN ARTIST OFTHE FLOATING
WORLD
• An Artist of the Floating World is set in the aftermath of the bombing of Nagasald and
Hiroshima respectively.These traumatic events structure and scar the narrative, which
are skillfully composed around strategic allences and suppressions
• An Artist of the Floating World is not straightforward historical novet. In fact what is so
intriguing and puzzling about it is the way in which it makes no attempt to narrate the
catastrophic events seemingly central to them.The narrative is not investigation into the
historical conditions of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, it is psychological portrait of how
character copes with such traumatic events
• Ishiguro's novels typically contain characters that deceive rather than reveal themselves
through story telling. His books are not attempts to render the past convincingly, but
rather to pursue how individuals interpret and (re)construct their past.

8. THE NARRATOR
• The narratorOne is a narrator haunted by the past. His wife is dead following a bombing
raid that destroyed large sections of their house. His son dies fighting the Chinese. Ono
does not dwell explicitly on these personal losses.He seems oddly detached from them.
However, as he strolls through the shattered remains of his home he also circles around
this past, which appears to the reader obliquely, through glimpses and side-glances
• As the powerful physical and psychological detail of An Artist of the Floating World
suggests, Ishiguro's work is often preoccupied with interiors not simply with journeys
into the mind and memory, but also with domestic interiors. It is upon private rather
than public terrain that Ishiguro's work feels most at home.

9. ARCHIVES AND ROUGH
COPIES
•The Ransom Center is acquiring the archive of novelistThe
archive provides a meticulous and dense record of Ishiguro's
writing projects, including his seven published novels. Known to
work slowly, Ishiguro has kept his notes and multiple drafts of
each work, amounting to thousands of preparatory notes and
drafts for each of his novels.

10. AUTHOR'S STATEMENT
•Author's statement'I am a writer who wishes to write
international novels.What is an international' novel? | believe it
to be one, quite simply, that contains a vision of life that is of
importance to people of varied backgrounds around the world.
It may concern characters who jet across continents, but may
just as easily be set firmly in one small locality.