An Artist of the Floating World
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet Iantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of show more Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity. show lessTags
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Yet another example of Ishiguro's mastery of the unreliable narrator, and how their anagnorisis underscores those quiet but crucial moments that vex, hurt, but ultimately change us. Ono never definitively states whether he believes his lifetime of accomplishments was something to revere or punish, but the memories he recounts and the ways in which they are paced and laid out provides a very deep, very thorough, and very honest portrayal of an individual working through these constantly-conflicting viewpoints of their own life. And this is all set against the backdrop of a still-recovering Japan, in which the constant reminders of change and modernization further emphasize Ono's fish-out-of-water feeling about his place in society and show more the need to re-evaluate all he had done in an era gone by. This didn't end up among my favourite of Ishiguro's novels--it lacks the moments of intense emotional release that made "Never Let Me Go" and "Remains of the Day" so eternally gripping--but "An Artist of the Floating World" managed to take an outwardly-meandering plot and pace and develop its themes and character arc in such a masterful way that Ono's meditations on the future at the end of the story feel rightfully earned and oh so satisfying. show less
The plummy accent of the audio book narrator was a little off-putting at the beginning, but it actually fits really well with Ono's haughty demeanor and obstinate obtuseness toward his daughters' views. The way Ishiguro weaves the present and past of the novel flows easily at the beginning of each flashback, but is then jarring when Ono reverts to the present, mimicking reverie exquisitely. The actual plot and themes of the novel, generational differences, possible past misdeeds, and patriotism, are handled with a realism that gives them a universality beyond the setting of Japan just after WWII.
'An Artist of the Floating World' is Ishiguro's second novel and in many ways deals with the same issues and themes that appear in his better known 'The Remains of the Day'. But personally I found it more powerful than it’s more famous successor.
This novel is set in Japan in the immediate years following the end of WWII. The story is told in four parts ranging from October 1948 to June 1950 but in truth most of the action actually takes place prior to the war. It is told by Masuji Ono, an artist who had achieved modest fame before the war and a subsequent level of notoriety during it.
Ono, has now stepped back from public life and retired to his home and garden as he seeks to come to terms with the new outward looking Japan. Both his show more life and the country's is in a flux. He is an unreliable narrator, using the passage of time as an excuse, and it soon becomes impossible for us to know what is truthful recollection and what is simply imagined. But is he lying to us or himself?
"Of course, that is all a matter of many years ago now and I cannot vouch that those were my exact words that morning."
Ono is living with the consequences of his role during the war. He is the nominal head of his family but his influence even there is waning as his daughters along with the youth of the country gradually turn there backs on their seniors who they blame for the loss of lives. We discover that Ono's reputation is under question not simply because of his part in the cause of Japanese militarism but also because he acted as advisor to the Committee of Unpatriotic Activities, and betrayed one of his proteges to the secret police.
Prior to the war Ono had been an apprentice in ukiyo-e – a tradition of using wooden blocks and paintings to portray beauty, courtisans, flora and fauna etc that became known as 'The Floating World'. This style was highly formulaic and distinctive but now under the growing influence of the West and in particular American in tje country Ono finds his world floating in a new and entirely different direction.
The book is beautifully paced as it confronts issues of guilt and redemption at a personal and national level, examines notions of loyalty and social responsibility. Ono's meandering anecdotes look back over his life wondering if it was all really worth it.It is well written and haunting but also ends on a positive final outlook. A very enjoyable novel. show less
This novel is set in Japan in the immediate years following the end of WWII. The story is told in four parts ranging from October 1948 to June 1950 but in truth most of the action actually takes place prior to the war. It is told by Masuji Ono, an artist who had achieved modest fame before the war and a subsequent level of notoriety during it.
Ono, has now stepped back from public life and retired to his home and garden as he seeks to come to terms with the new outward looking Japan. Both his show more life and the country's is in a flux. He is an unreliable narrator, using the passage of time as an excuse, and it soon becomes impossible for us to know what is truthful recollection and what is simply imagined. But is he lying to us or himself?
"Of course, that is all a matter of many years ago now and I cannot vouch that those were my exact words that morning."
Ono is living with the consequences of his role during the war. He is the nominal head of his family but his influence even there is waning as his daughters along with the youth of the country gradually turn there backs on their seniors who they blame for the loss of lives. We discover that Ono's reputation is under question not simply because of his part in the cause of Japanese militarism but also because he acted as advisor to the Committee of Unpatriotic Activities, and betrayed one of his proteges to the secret police.
Prior to the war Ono had been an apprentice in ukiyo-e – a tradition of using wooden blocks and paintings to portray beauty, courtisans, flora and fauna etc that became known as 'The Floating World'. This style was highly formulaic and distinctive but now under the growing influence of the West and in particular American in tje country Ono finds his world floating in a new and entirely different direction.
The book is beautifully paced as it confronts issues of guilt and redemption at a personal and national level, examines notions of loyalty and social responsibility. Ono's meandering anecdotes look back over his life wondering if it was all really worth it.It is well written and haunting but also ends on a positive final outlook. A very enjoyable novel. show less
I really love Ishiguro's writing. He writes simply but beautifully and there are always multiple layers and interpretations of his work. This book is no different. Ono, the very unreliable first-person narrator, is musing on his life in the aftermath of WWII Japan. He slowly reveals some of his actions during the war and seems to not be able to admit to his mistakes and also not be able to understand if he or those around him should/do judge his actions harshly.
Some may not like the ambiguity that the reader is left with, but I thought the open-ended nature made me consider the book and the time period more intensely than I would if everything had been answered.
Some may not like the ambiguity that the reader is left with, but I thought the open-ended nature made me consider the book and the time period more intensely than I would if everything had been answered.
La producción literaria de Kazuo Ishiguro es escasa, cuenta tan solo con siete novelas. Tarda varios años en escribir y publicar un nuevo libro, tal vez porque le gusta poner un cuidado especial en todo lo que escribe, obviando las presiones a las que debe ser sometido por las editoriales, y dejando a un lado la fama y el prestigio que ha ido adquiriendo con su obra, de los que podría aprovecharse como hacen otros autores para vender cualquier “cosa” que se les pasa por la cabeza. Como el protagonista de ‘Un artista del mundo flotante’ dice:
‘Un artista del mundo flotante’ es el segundo libro que publicó Kazuo Ishiguro, sin duda la más japonesa de sus novelas, que nos recuerda el Japón más clásico. La historia transcurre en los años posteriores a la segunda guerra mundial, con el trasfondo de un país que intenta salir adelante a base de orgullo y terquedad. El protagonista es Masuji Ono, un respetado pintor, ya retirado, que rememora los años en los que estudiaba con los mejores maestros, y recordando al mismo tiempo su época como sensei de sus propios alumnos, todo ello narrado en primera persona por Ono mediante flashbacks e historias dentro de historias, de una manera magistral, como es habitual en Ishiguro.
Pero además de estos recuerdos previos a la guerra, Ono también vive un turbulento presente, en el que tiene dos hijas, Setsuko y Noriko, y un nieto, Ichiro, hijo de la primera. Las discusiones con sus hijas, muy al estilo japonés, en las que se dice todo con mucho respeto, casi pasando de puntillas sobre los problemas, están muy presentes en la novela, y aquí es donde radica uno de sus puntos fuertes, la incomunicación entre generaciones, ya que la frontera entre ese Japón antiguo y la occidentalización de este nuevo Japón salen a relucir. Ono vive todavía anclado en el pasado, en las antiguas tradiciones, mientras que sus hijas miran hacia un horizonte más moderno, y su nieto Ichiro refleja el floreciente americanismo, jugando al Llanero Solitario o queriendo comer espinacas como Popeye, por ejemplo.
La historia transcurre entre las revelaciones de Ono sobre su pasado, donde sobresale la difícil situación con algunos de sus discípulos, y esta es otra de las lecturas de la novela. Ono al principio de su carrera como artista se dedicaba a pintar paisajes del “mundo flotante” o Ukiyo-e (Grabados japoneses realizados entre los siglos XVII y XX, donde se reflejaban paisajes, teatro kabuki o escenas eróticas. Pero el tema principal del Ukiyo-e eran los lugares de entretenimiento y placer. Más adelante, estos retratos de los estratos más bajos de la sociedad fueron prohibidos por motivos políticos. Hokusai y Utamaro fueron dos de sus máximos exponentes), hasta que la política y la guerra se interpusieron en su camino, desencadenando algunos hechos de los que se arrepiente. Algo que jugará un papel importante en el presente, cuando se está acordando el matrimonio de Noriko, tradición que implica la investigación del pasado de ambas partes.
Con la elegancia y reflexión que caracterizan a Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘Un artista del mundo flotante’ va transcurriendo entre revelaciones, conversaciones con sus maestros, paseos y descripciones de diversos paisajes, como pueden ser el Parque de Kawabe o el Puente de las Vacilaciones. Se trata de una pequeña gran maravilla. ¿Ha escrito alguna mala novela Ishiguro? La respuesta es concisa: no. show less
[…] mi idea de la fama y una buena posición pueden ser el premio de alguien que no ha hecho más que consagrarse a su trabajo, no por alcanzarla, sino simplemente por el placer deshow more
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‘Un artista del mundo flotante’ es el segundo libro que publicó Kazuo Ishiguro, sin duda la más japonesa de sus novelas, que nos recuerda el Japón más clásico. La historia transcurre en los años posteriores a la segunda guerra mundial, con el trasfondo de un país que intenta salir adelante a base de orgullo y terquedad. El protagonista es Masuji Ono, un respetado pintor, ya retirado, que rememora los años en los que estudiaba con los mejores maestros, y recordando al mismo tiempo su época como sensei de sus propios alumnos, todo ello narrado en primera persona por Ono mediante flashbacks e historias dentro de historias, de una manera magistral, como es habitual en Ishiguro.
Pero además de estos recuerdos previos a la guerra, Ono también vive un turbulento presente, en el que tiene dos hijas, Setsuko y Noriko, y un nieto, Ichiro, hijo de la primera. Las discusiones con sus hijas, muy al estilo japonés, en las que se dice todo con mucho respeto, casi pasando de puntillas sobre los problemas, están muy presentes en la novela, y aquí es donde radica uno de sus puntos fuertes, la incomunicación entre generaciones, ya que la frontera entre ese Japón antiguo y la occidentalización de este nuevo Japón salen a relucir. Ono vive todavía anclado en el pasado, en las antiguas tradiciones, mientras que sus hijas miran hacia un horizonte más moderno, y su nieto Ichiro refleja el floreciente americanismo, jugando al Llanero Solitario o queriendo comer espinacas como Popeye, por ejemplo.
La historia transcurre entre las revelaciones de Ono sobre su pasado, donde sobresale la difícil situación con algunos de sus discípulos, y esta es otra de las lecturas de la novela. Ono al principio de su carrera como artista se dedicaba a pintar paisajes del “mundo flotante” o Ukiyo-e (Grabados japoneses realizados entre los siglos XVII y XX, donde se reflejaban paisajes, teatro kabuki o escenas eróticas. Pero el tema principal del Ukiyo-e eran los lugares de entretenimiento y placer. Más adelante, estos retratos de los estratos más bajos de la sociedad fueron prohibidos por motivos políticos. Hokusai y Utamaro fueron dos de sus máximos exponentes), hasta que la política y la guerra se interpusieron en su camino, desencadenando algunos hechos de los que se arrepiente. Algo que jugará un papel importante en el presente, cuando se está acordando el matrimonio de Noriko, tradición que implica la investigación del pasado de ambas partes.
Con la elegancia y reflexión que caracterizan a Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘Un artista del mundo flotante’ va transcurriendo entre revelaciones, conversaciones con sus maestros, paseos y descripciones de diversos paisajes, como pueden ser el Parque de Kawabe o el Puente de las Vacilaciones. Se trata de una pequeña gran maravilla. ¿Ha escrito alguna mala novela Ishiguro? La respuesta es concisa: no. show less
Review: An Artist of The Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Kazuo Ishiguro excellent writing unfolds a vivid organized reflection on post-war Japan by a Japanese man named Masuji Ono, an artist trying to capture the pre-war period which he called, “The Floating World”. This is well-written novel that gradually reveals how the past can haunt individuals and invade on the present time of real conditions.
Masuji Ono spent most of his young life and now his adult life in Japan is struggling with understanding Japan’s defeat as evidence through his relationship with his two adult daughters and his visions of the past which slowly highlights his personal relationships to events that brought on such a change to Japan. The post-war Japan show more and the modern views held by his old students, his family and a young grandson wanting to pretend to be the Lone Ranger when he should be reflecting a proud Japanese boy playing as a samurai warrior.
Ono starts to wonder if his nationalistic duty as an artist creating military and patriotic art, which provided him with not just fame but respect and influence could now be negatively considered as fascism. His idealistic persona is what he thought created the Japanese’s sophisticated society and vast shared beliefs to educate. He starts to question his own beliefs and memories of his youth and actions in the name of imperialistic support for Japan’s warfare.
Masuji Ono is a man clinging desperately to outdated traditions, while the world around him rapidly changes. Even though Masuji Ono visions are now wrong for Japan, he is still proud of what he stands for and keeps his belief’s to himself and tries to gain knowledge of the new generation to survive. Intentionally blind to his own fallings, both past and present, he is at once both, heartbroken and supportive. He still has his memories, his past history, and his love for Japan. This isn’t really a story about a man coming to terms with his past but more of a story about a man coming to terms with the future…. show less
Kazuo Ishiguro excellent writing unfolds a vivid organized reflection on post-war Japan by a Japanese man named Masuji Ono, an artist trying to capture the pre-war period which he called, “The Floating World”. This is well-written novel that gradually reveals how the past can haunt individuals and invade on the present time of real conditions.
Masuji Ono spent most of his young life and now his adult life in Japan is struggling with understanding Japan’s defeat as evidence through his relationship with his two adult daughters and his visions of the past which slowly highlights his personal relationships to events that brought on such a change to Japan. The post-war Japan show more and the modern views held by his old students, his family and a young grandson wanting to pretend to be the Lone Ranger when he should be reflecting a proud Japanese boy playing as a samurai warrior.
Ono starts to wonder if his nationalistic duty as an artist creating military and patriotic art, which provided him with not just fame but respect and influence could now be negatively considered as fascism. His idealistic persona is what he thought created the Japanese’s sophisticated society and vast shared beliefs to educate. He starts to question his own beliefs and memories of his youth and actions in the name of imperialistic support for Japan’s warfare.
Masuji Ono is a man clinging desperately to outdated traditions, while the world around him rapidly changes. Even though Masuji Ono visions are now wrong for Japan, he is still proud of what he stands for and keeps his belief’s to himself and tries to gain knowledge of the new generation to survive. Intentionally blind to his own fallings, both past and present, he is at once both, heartbroken and supportive. He still has his memories, his past history, and his love for Japan. This isn’t really a story about a man coming to terms with his past but more of a story about a man coming to terms with the future…. show less
An artist of the floating world is a pretty languid book: it deals with an ageing painter, Ono, who spends most of his time thinking about his past and feeling abstractly confused about the present, particularly about why his family and his former friends keep their emotional distance.
His past is Imperial Japan before and during the second World War, when he was a talented mid-level artist working within the system and supporting his country. The present is a post-war, American-dominated Japan eager to do away with its past, actively establishing a new self-image that rejects and de-emphasizes uncomfortable elements of the old one.
Ono, as supporter of the status-quo, did rather well for himself in Imperial times; his former friends show more and students, who sometimes chose more counter-cultural paths, generally did not. Ono, of course, fails to see where things went off the rails: he never did anything wrong, never engaged in objectionable behaviour; he merely fit into society and its expectations of him, and is now vaguely annoyed at people who seem to blame him for having earned a comfortable living and a fêted career. Having retired, he no longer needs to worry about things like a roof over his head (he managed to find a lovely traditional villa that was sold dirt cheap after the war), establishing a career, or finding a spouse. And so, from his comfortable position, he’s benignly oblivious to how he comes across to others.
I read this book surprisingly quickly: it flows along quite speedily, as large sections of the book consist of the narrator reminiscing meanderingly, and fairly pleasantly, about episodes of his past. Incidents in the present, interactions with his family, and visits to former friends are quite transparently occasions where Ono’s unthinking acceptance clashes with others’ perspectives. Ishiguro has an engaging way with words, and the prose offers no obstacles. An artist of the floating world is a straightforward, guileless, smooth read. show less
His past is Imperial Japan before and during the second World War, when he was a talented mid-level artist working within the system and supporting his country. The present is a post-war, American-dominated Japan eager to do away with its past, actively establishing a new self-image that rejects and de-emphasizes uncomfortable elements of the old one.
Ono, as supporter of the status-quo, did rather well for himself in Imperial times; his former friends show more and students, who sometimes chose more counter-cultural paths, generally did not. Ono, of course, fails to see where things went off the rails: he never did anything wrong, never engaged in objectionable behaviour; he merely fit into society and its expectations of him, and is now vaguely annoyed at people who seem to blame him for having earned a comfortable living and a fêted career. Having retired, he no longer needs to worry about things like a roof over his head (he managed to find a lovely traditional villa that was sold dirt cheap after the war), establishing a career, or finding a spouse. And so, from his comfortable position, he’s benignly oblivious to how he comes across to others.
I read this book surprisingly quickly: it flows along quite speedily, as large sections of the book consist of the narrator reminiscing meanderingly, and fairly pleasantly, about episodes of his past. Incidents in the present, interactions with his family, and visits to former friends are quite transparently occasions where Ono’s unthinking acceptance clashes with others’ perspectives. Ishiguro has an engaging way with words, and the prose offers no obstacles. An artist of the floating world is a straightforward, guileless, smooth read. show less
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Ishiguro describes the genesis of his second novel by referring to his first: “There was a subplot in A Pale View of Hills about an old teacher who has to rethink the values on which he’s built his life. I said to myself, I would like to write a full-blown novel about a man in this situation – in this case, an artist whose career becomes contaminated because he happens to live at a show more certain time.” ... Ishiguro’s fiction has certainly mined the complexities involved in the unreliable, first-person narrator. An Artist of the Floating World is perhaps the supreme example of his art. It is, at face value, deeply Japanese, but many of its themes – secrecy, regret, discretion, hypocrisy and loss – are also to be found in the 20th-century English novel. show less
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“An Artist of the Floating World” is a sensitive examination of the turmoil in postwar Japan, a time when certainties were overturned, gender politics shifted, the hierarchy of the generations seemed to topple and even the geography of cities changed. All this is made more poignant when seen through the eyes of a man who is rejected by the future and who chooses to reject his own past.
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In the second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, the teacher of discredited values is the narrator and main character. Mr. Ono is a retired painter and art master, and as in A Pale View of Hills, the story bobs about between reminiscences of different periods of the hero's life. Not that Mr. Ono is a hero: in fact, he is the least admirable and sympathetic of Ishiguro's chief characters, show more an opportunist and timeserver, adapting his views and even his artistic style to the party in power. So it comes that in the Thirties he deserts his first, westernizing master of painting for the strict, old-fashioned style and patriotic content of the imperialist, propaganda art. show less
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Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan on November 8, 1954. In 1960, his family moved to England. He received a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy from the University of Kent in 1978 and a master's degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. His first novel, A Pale View show more of Hills, received the Winifred Holtby Award from the Royal Society of Literature. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, received the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1986. His third novel, The Remains of the Day, received the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989 and was adapted into a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. His other works include The Unconsoled, When We Were Orphans, Never Let Me Go, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, and The Buried Giant. He was awarded the OBE in 1995 for services to literature and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1998. He received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has also written several songs for jazz singer Stacey Kent and screenplays for both film and television. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- An Artist of the Floating World
- Original title
- An Artist of the Floating World
- Original publication date
- 1986
- People/Characters
- Masuji Ono; Elder daughter Setsuko, younger daughter Noriko, colleague Matsuda, dissident Kuroda
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- Japan
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- World War II (1939-1945); Allied occupation of Japan (1945-1952)
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- For my parents
- First words
- If on a sunny day you climb the steep path leading up from the little wooden bridge still referred to around here as ‘the Bridge of Hesitation’, you will not have to walk far before the roof of my house becomes visible be... (show all)tween the tops of two gingko trees.
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- If one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is a consolation—indeed, a deep satisfaction—to be gained from this observation when looking back over one’s life. (Masuji Ono)
And yet we allow our people to grow more and more desperate, our little children die of malnutrition. Meanwhile, the businessmen get richer and the politicians forever make excuses and chatter. Can you imagine any of the West... (show all)ern powers allowing such a situation? (Matsuda)
It is not necessary that artists always occupy a decadent and enclosed world. My conscience, Sensei, tells me I cannot remain forever an artist of the floating world.’
'...our contribution was always marginal. No one cares now what the likes of you and me once did. They look at us and see only two old men with their sticks.’ He smiled at me, then went on feeding the fish. ‘We’re the o... (show all)nly ones who care now. The likes of you and me, Ono, when we look back over our lives and see they were flawed, we’re the only ones who care now.’ - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)One can only wish these young people well.
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