The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro.The protagonist, Stevens, is a butler with a long record of service at Darlington Hall, a fictitious stately home near Oxford, England.In 1956, he takes a road trip to visit a former colleague, and reminisces about events at Darlington Hall in the 1920s and 1930s.

1990年9月12日 · BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at …

1989年5月1日 · (Book 190 from 1001 books) - The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day, is a 1989 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British writer, Kazuo Ishiguro. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country.

The Remains of the Day is told in the first-person narration of an English butler named Stevens. In July 1956, Stevens decides to take a six- day road trip to the West Country of England—a region to the west of Darlington Hall, the house in which Stevens resides and has worked as a butler for thirty-four years.

The Remains of the Day is, in some ways, a historical novel that is “about” the effects of Nazism and World War II on England, even if it is more concerned with the ways these significant historical events pressed on individual circumstances. Also implicit, though, is the decline of the English aristocracy, a process that began in the nineteenth century with the rise of a new …

2024年3月1日 · ‘The Remains of the Day is a book about a thwarted life. It’s about how class conditioning can turn you into your own worst enemy, making you complicit in your own subservience. It’s probably quite an English book – I can’t imagine readers in more gregarious nations will have much patience with a protagonist who takes four decades to ...

The Remains of the Day, novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 1989. The Remains of the Day , Ishiguro’s first novel set outside his native Japan and in his adopted England, is typical of Ishiguro’s style: delicate, detailed, and evocative prose which reveals the perceived flaws in a central character through that character’s first-person ...

The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a critically acclaimed film directed by James Ivory in 1993. Read the full book summary , an in-depth character analysis of Stevens , and explanations of important quotes from The Remains of …

Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993, directed by James Ivory and with a screenplay written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.. Anthony Hopkins took on the role of butler James Stevens, with Emma Thompson as Sarah ‘Sally’ Kenton. The film also starred Christopher Reeve and Hugh Grant.

2010年7月14日 · The Remains of the Day: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Vintage International) - Kindle edition by Ishiguro, Kazuo. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Remains of the Day: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Vintage International).