Nobel Prize Winner

A nonwhite can never become British

yes they can, you are just an american butthurt than a brit own

>at the age of 5
I thought he was born in bongland. Haha

so you think that mudslimes and pooinloos are british?
fuck you

loving all the circumcised butthurt

ps: Pynchon, McCarthy, Roth and DeLillo are all too old to win the prize now, get over it

srs question: how is his writing and what's his style

You know my mothafucking style

he is a traditional novelist, tends to write in first person, memory and nostalgia are big themes in his work

PROLOGUE · JULY 1956

Darlington Hall

It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days. An expedition, I should say, which I will undertake alone, in the comfort of Mr Farraday’s Ford; an expedition which, as I foresee it, will take me through much of the finest countryside of England to the West Country, and may keep me away from Darlington Hall for as much as five or six days. The idea of such a journey came about, I should point out, from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago, when I had been dusting the portraits in the library. In fact, as I recall, I was up on the step-ladder dusting the portrait of Viscount Wetherby when my employer had entered carrying a few volumes which he presumably wished returned to the shelves. On seeing my person, he took the opportunity to inform me that he had just that moment finalized plans to return to the United States for a period of five weeks between August and September. Having made this announcement, my employer put his volumes down on a table, seated himself on the chaise-longue, and stretched out his legs. It was then, gazing up at me, that he said:

‘You realize, Stevens, I don’t expect you to be locked up here in this house all the time I’m away. Why don’t you take the car and drive off somewhere for a few days? You look like you could make good use of a break.’

Coming out of the blue as it did, I did not quite know how to reply to such a suggestion. I recall thanking him for his consideration, but quite probably I said nothing very definite, for my employer went on:

‘I’m serious, Stevens. I really think you should take a break. I’ll foot the bill for the gas. You fellows, you’re always locked up in these big houses helping out, how do you ever get to see around this beautiful country of yours?’

This was not the first time my employer had raised such a question; indeed, it seems to be something which genuinely troubles him. On this occasion, in fact, a reply of sorts did occur to me as I stood up there on the ladder; a reply to the effect that those of our profession, although we did not see a great deal of the country in the sense of touring the countryside and visiting picturesque sites, did actually ‘see’ more of England than most, placed as we were in houses where the greatest ladies and gentlemen of the land gathered. Of course, I could not have expressed this view to Mr Farraday without embarking upon what might have seemed a presumptuous speech. I thus contented myself by saying simply:

‘It has been my privilege to see the best of England over the years, sir, within these very walls.’

Mr Farraday did not seem to understand this statement, for he merely went on: ‘I mean it, Stevens. It’s wrong that a man can’t get to see around his own country. Take my advice, get out of the house for a few days.’

He wrote genre, or half-genre anywaym.

I'm happy he won for that.

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she looks japanese actually

fair enough

>Jews don't want to replace us with asians and muslims
I think you've got that backwards. Circumcised people think that muslims and asians are british

Commas; The Novel

Reads like something from a Veeky Forums critique thread

Go away ruggles

I saw that Never Let Me Go movie, it was really fucking shit. Is the book any better?

Never heard of him. They probably picked him because hes Chinese or Korean or something

guys stop shitposting about not knowing who ishiguro is lmao

He's literally less interesting and weird Murakami.

It's good that Murakami didn't get it, that's something I'm happy about every year.

Should have given it to McCarthy or Pynchon but istead this Chinese YA writer gets it

he is less weird he is at least a competent writer and structurer unlike murakami who genuinely writes like a teenager, still what a bland choice. It is so insulting to actual good writers out like there Javier Marías and László Krasznahorkai

This.

nobel prize shoulda gone to charlie sheen

I can't believe I still remember this tune from what must have been at least 8 years ago.

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I love memes

Pynchone doesnt exist, get over it!

>stretched out his legs

Harry Potter-tier writing

I am a Muslim living in the West and I do not think that way at all.

Hey, at least he's a writer, this is a definite step in the right direction.

what did he post

You have to go back.

>It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days
What a labored, piece of shit sentence. He's basically """writing""" discount Evelyn Waugh and I hate that dickless, twee style of writing.

That my religious group can never fully become part of Western culture

It's true though

why would you want to join western culture. it's terrible and dying

>everyone hyping Murakami or that other Jap woman
>they give it to the British Jap guy instead
lol

If you are more loyal to the law of your country than to the law of Islam, you can become western. If not, you have a problem.

Hate to roll out the oldest line going but, user, read the actual book if you want to understand it. The character speaking there is an uptight servant. He's got affectations of poshness without an actual education and is constantly trying to repress shit. Literally the entire point is that it's laboured. This is like criticising Joyce for poor punctuation.

>It's supposed to be bad!
*yawns*

Cool. My mums favourite novel is Remains of the Day and I keep meaning to read Let Me Go.

Boy, this Dostoyevsky character sure is stupid! I don't need to read this book at all!

LOL

No.

Its probably the translation that makes it seem bad.

>translation
lol
Can Ishiguro even speak Japanese?

Jesus Christ you guys are stupid. Try reading a book every once in a while.

>Try reading a book every once in a while.
I did, it said you're a fag and that you need to go back.

>mfw unpublished il/lit/eraters shitting on a nobel prize winner

but she's probably British

>mfw retards think getting a meaningless award (Sartre rejected it) somehow removes one from the critical world

Allah sent us here to save you from the jews and make the west great again.

That's actually pitch-perfect, given that it's coming from Stevens, our stuffy, repressed, and broken narrator.

>"T-the writing is stuffy and boring because the character is stuffy and boring!"

oh fuck

uh yeah, if you ever actually read a real book you would know that's how good prose works.

>good prose
>Evelyn Waugh copypaste with added Ambien

Sartre is shyte though

>uh yeah, if you ever actually read a real book you would know that's how good prose works.
0/10

That's my point; even as bad a writer as Sartre had the integrity to reject it

Learn to use a semi-colon and write a real sentence before you criticize a Nobel winning author.

useless fucking pseud

Still better than Bob Dylan. Remains of the Day is a fantastic book.

What's wrong with the semicolon there? I would have gone with a colon, but to each his own

He wrote that one book about the servant who works for a Nazi sympathizer. It was pretty good.

"That (Sartre is shit) is my point" and "Sartre had the integrity to reject it (the Nobel)" are both independent clauses, buttboy

...was the field really that empty this year?

He's wrong then. It's your untermensch genes that prevent that.

>literally fuck who
bow to your new nober prize winner kazuo ishigulo

They're literally clutching straws at this point. Michel Houellebecq is probably the best candidate yet I can imagine so many more than Bob Dylan and this fellow.

What's wrong Veeky Forums? Is his work too obscure for you?

tfw you realise Joseph Heller never got his Nobel prize, and this guy got it

>think to myself "who is this guy"
>wiki him
>he wrote Never Let Me Go

what the fuck. how the FUCK did this guy win

This honestly feels like a joke at this point.

>another literal who minority

the nobel prize is a joke

I agree, other anons are just butthurt

Then again, we're on Veeky Forums, nobody reads here.

The Remains Of The Day was sublime. Houellebecq will never win since he, just like Haruki Murakami, is a one-trick pony.

Moved fast

He wrote remains of the day and The Buried Giant you shitter.

You're a fucking idiot

When will you guys admit that Japanese literature is the best?

>Veeky Forums shitting on Ishiguro

bunch of pseuds

Veeky Forums is so retarded thinking you can judge well received writer's quality simply from a fucking paragraph. There is seriously nothing absolutely done technically bad in this excerpt. You are supposed to judge a novel on the merits of the entire work, and the literary devices used on a chapter to chapter basis. A beautiful paragraph is a rare exception to this rule, not every paragraph is going to be a homerun masterpiece.

Has nobody read Ishiguro at all? Never Let me Go is a seriously good novel.

Does Veeky Forums even fucking read?

Just be glad it isn't some fucking SJW jew or songwriter.

>Person in a /crit/ thread writes such a shlocky, stilted paragraph
It's shit - never write again
>This Jap hack writes the same garbage paragraph
NOBEL LAUREATE

Why would I have heard of either of those?

You mean westernized Japanese literature

A good question, as you seem to be a fool unacquainted with modern literature.

I don't read literal who's

Kazuo

There were literally five of them in my class at school. Very common English name.

Yes I suppose it is difficult to have a breakeven knowledge of literature when one is reading out of a highschool syllabus. Please go back to Catch 22 and Brave New World, the adults are speaking, you repellent faggot.

I'm a big fan of Japanese lit but it's pretty much all the same

>dude I fucking hate myself
>why do i suck
>kimonos