British writer Kazuo Ishiguro - new Nobel Prize winner in literature

STOCKHOLM. The unexpected triumph of the "dark horse", which everyone was delighted with.

“A dark horse, which no one could think of, triumphantly rushed past the stands” (Benjamin Disraeli “The Young Duke”). Kazuo Ishiguro turned out to be just such a strong candidate whose chances of winning were not discussed by bookmakers or experts. The joker, who turned out to be on the podium instead of the years-old stepson of fortune Haruki Murakami, ahead of the Syrian Adonis, Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiongo, Canadian Margaret Atwood, Frenchman of Czech origin Milan Kunderu and 190 other applicants in the Nobel race.

The positive reaction of the readers and the approval of the literary community confirmed the faultlessness of the jury’s choice. The potential of one of Britain’s best writers has been evident from the very beginning of his literary career. From the publication of the first stories - Getting Poisoned, Waiting for J, A Strange and Sometimes Sadness, included in the anthology of works by novice authors, to the publication of the novel about the hometown of the writer Nagasaki “Where there are hills in a haze”, only a year has passed. A View of Hills Pale was named Book of the Year and received the Royal Literary Society Award.

Further - on the rise. Whitbread Book Award - for “An Artist of the Floating World”. Man Booker Prize - for The Remains of the Day. The Guardian newspaper has repeatedly included The End of the Day novel in its list of books to read. The on-screen embodiment of the history of the elderly butler was also very successful. The film The Remains Of The Day with great acting by Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson won awards at various festivals, numerous nominations for Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTA, Goya.

One of Isiguro’s most famous novels, the dystopia Never Let Me Go, which talks about human cloning for medical purposes, is on the list of the 100 best novels of all time written in English. The image of a girl clutching the old world to her chest, kind and irrevocably leaving under the onslaught of a new, tougher reality, was understandable and close to the reader anywhere in the world.

The Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall storybook (Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall) is partly a sublimation of Ishiguro’s dream of a musician career. Guitars in his house eloquently remind of her, song tests for several albums, including those nominated for Grammy, jazz singer Stacey Kent, a bewitching melody of his language. The latest novel is a fantastic parable “The Buried Giant” - about medieval England.

Ishiguro works, avoiding self-repetitions, changing genres, immersing the reader more and more in the emotional "abyss under the illusory connection with the world." Constant - metaphorical images, reflection, deep psychologism. His family came to Surrey from Nagasaki in 1960 when a talented oceanographer, Shizuo Ishiguro, was invited to work at the Institute of Oceanography. They thought that for a while, it turned out - forever. Therefore, in impeccable English by one of the best writers of Misty Albion, a note of Japanese restraint is so clearly felt.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru