ICYMI: Salman Rushdie on Kazuo Ishiguro: His legendary novel The Remains of the Day resurges – The Globe and Mail

For fans of Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro and depictions of the English aristocracy and butlers, Rushdie’s re-review of The Remains of the Day worth a read, along with the reflection of how a great writer can write beyond his context and identity:

With The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro turned away from the Japanese settings of his first two novels and revealed that his sensibility was not rooted in any one place, but capable of travel and metamorphosis. “By the time I started The Remains of the Day,” he told the Paris Review, “I realized that the essence of what I wanted to write was movable … For me, the essence doesn’t lie in the setting.” Where, then, might that essence lie? “Without psychoanalyzing myself, I can’t say why. You should never believe an author if he tells you why he has certain recurring themes.”

Salman Rushdie on Kazuo Ishiguro: His legendary novel The Remains of the Day resurges – The Globe and Mail.