Novel Readings – Rohan Amanda Maitzen – Reader, Professor, Critic
I've Been Reading Lately is what it sounds like. I spend most of my free time reading, and here's where I write about what I've read.
Below is a survey of Kazuo Ishiguro's whole career that I wrote back in 2009 for the "Quarterly Conversation" a site that, alas, seems to have wholly gone missing from the internet. Written on the occasion of the publication of Ishiguro's first book of short stories, "Nocturnes," it seems worth posting anew here the week of the publication of his new novel, "Klara and the Sun."
For what it's worth--scorekeeping at a minimum, I suppose--I thought the one novel that Ishiguro published between this piece and "Klara," "The Buried Giant," was a complete failure, almost to the point of being unreadable. That said, I was no less quick to get the new one, and I am no less excited to see what he's done this time.
Novel Readings – Rohan Amanda Maitzen – Reader, Professor, Critic