A few days ago the Nobel Prize for Literature 2017 giving the Japanese as worthy Kazuo Ishiguro. Since then, in Actualidad Literatura, you have had two articles about his figure:
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Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Prize in Literature 2017, where we gave you the news a few minutes after it was known and where we briefly told you a little about both the life and the work of the author.
- And finally, "The 3 best books of Kazuo Ishiguro, the new Nobel Prize in Literature", where we talked about what we considered the 3 best works of the same, with their synopsis and others.
Well, today we bring you the third and for now, the last article about this author. We leave you with what we consider the best phrases of Kazuo Ishiguro. A somewhat simpler article but no less important for that. We hope you like it!
Phrases and fragments of books by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Don't you think that sometimes we are too quick to copy the Americans? I am the first to think that many of our old customs have to be made to disappear forever, but… Don't you think that sometimes together with the bad we also get rid of good things? The truth is that right now Japan looks like a child learning from a foreign adult. (Book: «An artist of the floating world»).
- The vision of the triumph that some have is curious. Success is always subjective, one can achieve it facing the gallery and feel frustrated inside.
- They have to recognize that sometimes this is the way things work in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, one day go in one direction, and another day in another. (Book: "Never leave me").
- In times like this when people are getting poorer every day and the children we see on the street are getting sicker and hungrier every day, the last thing an artist should do is lock himself up and paint pictures of prostitutes. (Book: «An artist of the floating world»).
- When I watch movies converted to books, I try very hard not to remember the book. It is important to see the movie as a movie.
- I like to think that at the end of each story another begins for each one that can be much better.
- That is why we fought and that was what we won. We win the right to be free citizens. (Book: «The remainder of the day »).
- Why worry so much about what we should have done or not done to direct the course our lives took? (Book: "The remainder of the day").
- You may be a great person, but life is not just about loving just one individual. (Book: "Nightlife").
- "The new literary generation is an invention of publishers."