Remains of the Day (Penguin Longman Reader Level 6)
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Author: Kazuo IshiguroEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-08-14
ISBN: 0582342988
Number of pages: 112
Publisher: Pearson Elt
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Book Review: Before there were robots, there were English butlers!
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought I'd find this book boring (I mean, how interesting can a butler's life be? Ok, maybe they tend to be witnesses to sordid affairs but I didn't think this was such a book). In any case, I was wrong -- it was an intriguing study of human relationships and emotions.
This wasn't just a novel about an English butler in post-war England -- this was a book illustrating management principles. I'd rename the book "The remains of the day: Lessons in management". : )
The novel was an intriguing insight to an aspect of English life not intially apparent to me. It was also a study into a very believable aspect of human behaviour, albeit brought to extremes by the Stevens character. I had mixed reactions towards him as a person, some not very flattering. However, by the end of the book, I felt sorry for him. He was, in my opinion, trying to make sense of the world as best as he could. As much as he tried to detach himself from human emotions (his own coping mechanism towards the complexities of human relationships), in the end he reveals himself to be very human simply by showing regret.
Summary of Remains of the Day (Penguin Longman Reader Level 6)
What starts as a straightforward journey into the English countryside becomes a journey into the past for Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall. The climax of his trip is a reunion with his former housekeeper. The Remains of the Day won the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989 and is also an acclaimed film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.
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