The Resource An artist of the floating world, Kazuo Ishiguro
An artist of the floating world, Kazuo Ishiguro
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The item An artist of the floating world, Kazuo Ishiguro represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chelmsford Public Library.
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- Summary
- Masuji Ono saw misery in his homeland and became unwilling to spend his skills solely in the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he envisioned a strong and powerful nation of the future, and he put his painting to work in the service of the movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Masuji Ono struggles through the spiritual wreckage of that war, his memories of the "floating world" of his youth, full of pleasure and promise, serve as an escape from, a punishment for-and a justification of-his entire life. Drifting without honor in Japan's postwar society, which indicts him for its defeat and reviles him for his aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being. An Artist of the Floating World is a sensual and profoundly convincing portrait of the artist as an aging man. At once a multigenerational tale and a samurai death poem written in English, it is also a saga of the clash of the old and new orders, blending classical and contemporary iconography with compassion and wit"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 223 pages
- Note
-
- "First published by G. P. Putnam's Sons 1986"--T.p. verso
- "This hardcover edition published in Penguin Books 2013"--T.p. verso
- Isbn
- 9780143124283
- Label
- An artist of the floating world
- Title
- An artist of the floating world
- Statement of responsibility
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Masuji Ono saw misery in his homeland and became unwilling to spend his skills solely in the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he envisioned a strong and powerful nation of the future, and he put his painting to work in the service of the movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Masuji Ono struggles through the spiritual wreckage of that war, his memories of the "floating world" of his youth, full of pleasure and promise, serve as an escape from, a punishment for-and a justification of-his entire life. Drifting without honor in Japan's postwar society, which indicts him for its defeat and reviles him for his aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being. An Artist of the Floating World is a sensual and profoundly convincing portrait of the artist as an aging man. At once a multigenerational tale and a samurai death poem written in English, it is also a saga of the clash of the old and new orders, blending classical and contemporary iconography with compassion and wit"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1954-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6059.S5
- LC item number
- A89 2013
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- Penguin drop caps
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Japan
- World War, 1939-1945
- Fathers and daughters
- Older men
- Artists
- FICTION / Literary
- Label
- An artist of the floating world, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Note
-
- "First published by G. P. Putnam's Sons 1986"--T.p. verso
- "This hardcover edition published in Penguin Books 2013"--T.p. verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1566553
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 223 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143124283
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013001702
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1566553
- (OCoLC)823011183
- Label
- An artist of the floating world, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Note
-
- "First published by G. P. Putnam's Sons 1986"--T.p. verso
- "This hardcover edition published in Penguin Books 2013"--T.p. verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1566553
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 223 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143124283
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013001702
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1566553
- (OCoLC)823011183
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