Remains of the Day (2009, Penguin Books, Limited)
99, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 27 Settembre 2009 da Penguin Books, Limited.
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.
Un racconto piacevole, narrato in prima persona dal protagonista; un linguaggio raffinato, ma non forbito al punto tale da richiedere l'uso continuo di un dizionario.
Trama lineare, lettura scorrevole.
I didn't start getting into the story until around the 40% mark and even then, I felt like I had to make myself read it. If it hadn't been a book club pick, it'd probably be a DNF. I'm glad I stuck with it until the end. It was worth it from a literary and historical standpoint. But that ending felt incredibly depressing to me and I'm not sure it was meant to be? Was there meant to be little to no growth of the main character? Did he grow, but my own views are just so vastly different I can't see it? I have a lot of feelings to think about before my book club's discussion.
