Kazuo IshiguroĪs the reader reads on, Ono reflects on how his past has become very powerful in turning the tides of his present and future realities. His life isn’t perfect as we see that there are rifts between himself and his daughters but carefully shrouded under euphemisms and half statements. He was so respected that the novel begins by the narrator telling the reader how he bought a huge house at a fairly reduced price because of the respect he had wielded in his career and life generally.
The main character Ono, is a painter who has gained respect over the years. First, the novel is written in the first person narrative technique but practically every incident in the book are reflections of the narrator, more like a recollection of events or memories. This is my first interaction with any of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels and I must say An Artist of the Floating World is a good read and it is for a myriad of reasons.
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