{"id":30862,"date":"2017-10-05T13:51:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T20:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=30862"},"modified":"2017-10-07T07:12:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T14:12:33","slug":"kazuo-ishiguro-wins-the-nobel-the-writer-of-the-floating-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2017\/10\/05\/kazuo-ishiguro-wins-the-nobel-the-writer-of-the-floating-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazuo Ishiguro Wins the Nobel &#8211; The Writer of the Floating World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1aandrewIshiguro-and-Garfie_114766k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1aandrewIshiguro-and-Garfie_114766k.jpg\" alt=\"1aandrewIshiguro-and-Garfie_114766k\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1aandrewIshiguro-and-Garfie_114766k.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1aandrewIshiguro-and-Garfie_114766k-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAndrew Garfield and Kazuo Ishiguro<br \/>\nSee an excerpt from Never Let Me Go<a href=\" http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2010\/11\/08\/alain-delon-k-ishiguro-parker-posey\/\"> (Previous post &#8211; scroll down) <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1aaKazuoIshiguroface-e1507234938347.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1aaKazuoIshiguroface-e1507234938347.jpg\" alt=\"1aaKazuoIshiguroface\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30863\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations!   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/oct\/05\/kazuo-ishiguro-wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature\">Kazuo Ishiguro <\/a> wins the Nobel Prize. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-inevitable-sadness-of-kazuo-ishiguros-fiction-85299\">The Inevitable sadness of Kazuo Ishiguro&#8217;s fiction <\/a> from the Conversation.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-41513246\">BBC <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/kazuo-ishiguro-the-new-nobel-laureate-has-supremely-done-his-own-kind-of-thing\">The New Yorker (James Wood) <\/a> Wood loves &#8220;Never Let Me Go&#8221; and his early novels &#8211; saying Ishiguro has supremely done<br \/>\nhis own kind of thing. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-et-jc-nobel-prize-20171005-story.html\">LA times &#8211; <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe author&#8217;s subtlety and coolness are fascinating,\u201d wrote Patricia Highsmith<br \/>\nIshiguro attended British boarding schools and took time off, in 1973, to hitchhike across the U.S. with his guitar. He studied philosophy and literature at the University of Kent, when he sang and played in a band, and then got a master\u2019s in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Steeped in the idealistic social movements of the 1960s and \u201970s, he worked for several years <strong>helping the homeless and on housing rights. <\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/5829\/kazuo-ishiguro-the-art-of-fiction-no-196-kazuo-ishiguro\">Paris Review interview <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/post_me\/d_br.htm\">The Remains of the Day <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/books.gif\" alt=\"books\" title=\"books\" width=\"190\" height=\"95\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11538\" \/><br \/>\n Toyota brake pad talk show. (My old web art from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/post_me\/looking.htm\">Post Mutant Eggplant<\/a>)<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/an-artist1-900x440-e1507235592535.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/an-artist1-900x440-e1507235592535.jpg\" alt=\"an-artist1-900x440\" width=\"600\" height=\"293\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30868\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/05\/books\/kazuo-ishiguro-nobel-appraisal.html\">NYtimes<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel Winner Whose Characters Are Caught Between Worlds<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Garfield and Kazuo Ishiguro See an excerpt from Never Let Me Go (Previous post &#8211; scroll down) Congratulations! Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Prize. The Inevitable sadness of Kazuo Ishiguro&#8217;s fiction from the Conversation. BBC The New Yorker (James Wood) Wood loves &#8220;Never Let Me Go&#8221; and his early novels &#8211; saying Ishiguro has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2017\/10\/05\/kazuo-ishiguro-wins-the-nobel-the-writer-of-the-floating-world\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kazuo Ishiguro Wins the Nobel &#8211; The Writer of the Floating World&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cinema","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}