Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

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"`The Unconsoled` (translated into Serbian as Neutešni) is the fourth novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro, first published in 1995 by Faber and Faber. Winner of the Cheltenham Prize, it represents the most experimental and longest novel in the author`s oeuvre, written in a surreal, Kafkaesque manner.

Bibliographic and Technical Details

• Original Edition. The Unconsoled, Faber and Faber, London, 1995 (later reprints in 2013, paperback, 535 pages, ISBN: 978-0-571-28389-7).

Plot and Key Themes

Unlike his earlier realist novels such as The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro uses the logic of dreams and nightmares in this work to explore the human psyche.
• Plot. World-renowned English pianist Ryder arrives in an unnamed Central European city to give the most important concert of his career, yet he cannot remember when he agreed to the performance or what his schedule is.
• A Labyrinth of Obligations. Instead of preparing for the concert, Ryder gets caught up in a series of absurd, seemingly unrelated obligations and favors requested by the locals, including the hotel porter Gustav, Sophie, Boris, and the disgraced conductor Brodsky. Through these encounters, suppressed fragments of his own past, old loves, and family wounds are gradually revealed to him.
• Themes and Atmosphere. The novel pushes the themes of the unreliability of human memory, sense of duty, guilt, and the impossibility of true intimacy to the extreme, creating a dreamlike atmosphere in which time and space constantly shift."