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Article: Doubles on the rocks: Ishiguro's The Unconsoled.(Kazuo Ishiguro)(Critical Essay)
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- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
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- January 1, 2001
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The eye is nothing but a cage from the past, its bars intertwined with incessant dreams about the future.
--Kafka
A surprising number of reviewers have panned Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled. So far the novel has received little to no significant commentary. A smirky piece in The Yale Review captures the general view of what one finds: "[N]othing is more boring than another person's dream. When the person is himself a bore, the result is fatal" (Rorem 159). Most everyone laments Ishiguro's misdirection, his abandoning plasticity and psychological realism (much acclaimed in his three earlier novels, A Pale View of the Hills, An Artist of the Floating ...
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