Kazuo Ishiguro interview + reading from "Never Let Me Go" (2005)
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Never Let Me Go is the sixth novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for The Remains of the Day - a book of quiet desperation in a British household, brought to life on the screen by actor Anthony Hopkins. The author, born to Japanese parents in Great Britain, talks with Karen Grigsby Bates about his latest work, praised by critics as a deceptively simple tale set in a private school in the English countryside, where nothing is as it seems and the horrible truth is slowly revealed.
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This interview is just better than all other analysis videos on RUclips of the book. The author just explains it better. He's got a regal classical touch to him.
The "just" so wonderful and fulfilling. word description are perfect in where they are, I don't want to add anything so I don't trigger the well structured message.
Thank you.
Would have been super-terrific if the first host could have spent a few seconds to learn to pronounce "Kazuo" properly
I’ve read this book twice, and like it quite a lot. I’ve wondered if the author had ever heard the song, 905 by The Who, and if so, was it in any way an inspiration for the idea of the novel?
Introduction. The man introduces the programme, by mispronouncing the author's name, not once, but twice! ( he is Kazuo, not Kauzo). So inexcusably arrogant. Otherwise an excellent video and lovely readings.
The most disturbing and unbearable was the position of these children, abused as slaves, as objects for other people in betzer positions. Sad about this story was their abnormal or even not realistic acceptance of their situation- very rare that any child skip the rebell part of their youth. The story doesnt explain the social environment that keeps them paralized in place - they had normal childhood, they are raised to be creative, artistic and educated personalities . Why they would not even try to experiment with outside world, this is just not realistic. What really hit me is possibility that this is already going on- stilling organs from people in dire need for some pennies or even real abuse of people that are in dependent situations- poor people without formal identity, military ore any other prisons, hospitals...,... first them, than us, for now still protected. Among rich that can have ever,thing, and poor that are not even in posession of their own body. Surogat mothers- this is already socialy accetable and even praised. I will not go to this, crime against the child and the woman that serve as a mechanical incubator.
@@123kolibri Kazuo Ishiguro explained that the clones were unaware of the option to escape what they were programmed to perform as their duty. They were similar to slaves who did not run away from the plantations then felt lost when they were eventually freed. There's a story about baby elephants tied to a stake who later do not wander away when the rope is untied. Most of us are programmed to accept some situations that we do not consider avoiding or leaving due to a sense of duty or obligation. Leaving Hailsham or The Cottages would be like rejecting your whole family or exiting a cult and trying to construct a new identity. The desire to belong and cling to familiar people and familiar situations is pervasive. The children had nowhere to go and realised that "real" people found them repulsive and cringed at the thought of touching them. They were defined as "creatures" and viewed like animals bred for vital organs rather than human beings with souls, dreams and feelings.
@@chriscunningham8807 "learned helplessness"
This is a horribly racist interview. Wtf am I even listening to!? Why the idiotic interviewer insist on focusing on something that is so superfluous like "oh tell us about how Japanese people are reserved!" and "Do you identify more as Japanese or British?" What is he a sideshow? This is an amazing book and only the very end of the interview has anything to do with the freaking novel, which by the way, has nothing to freaking do with his heritage.
Its a typical white liberal, its NPR what do you expect. They look for confirmation in their warped worldviews everywhere their little eyes dart about. They want to make sure you are on board, unanimouminity is paramount
As an aspiring author with a similar upbringing as Ishiguro (in the US, with Chinese parents), I found the interviewer's question fascinating and useful - and Ishiguro's answer - even more so. There are countless interviews with the author strictly about his book and his influence on the movie. What's far rarer are his insights about his childhood and heritage, and what he thinks about that heritage, and how he chooses to use or not use it in writing. She's stating a perception that she observes Westerners like herself might have about Japanese culture, and asks if this had inspired him. She seemed respectful and totally open to his answer. He then politely and somewhat playfully "shuts down" that line of thought by giving an especially valuable insight for budding authors: that he observes such outward "reservation" and "hiding of the truth" as a universal trait across all cultures he's experienced, and even shoots back a retort about the way he feels Americans hide their own inner truths from others, one which this interviewer acknowledges earnestly and goes along with. This single insight helped me more as an Asian-immigrant, multicultural author than the last three short-form videos where Ishiguro had been interviewed "strictly" about the book.
I do get what you're saying, believe me. I'm not trying to dissuade you from your opinion, or contest it. As one person, I don't have the perspective to do so. If you still think the interview has aspects that are racist, I respect and give you space for your own opinion. Interestingly, I would have even agreed with you, I think, had I not watched Ishiguro's Nobel Peace Prize lecture last night, ruclips.net/video/ZW_5Y6ekUEw/видео.html, where he talks extensively about the influence of Japan and his imaginations about Japan - in his prior writings. If the interviewer had found out about this, then it's understandable that she might have wondered if his multicultural upbringing could have played a role in Never Let Me Go, as well.
Even if that was the explanation, one could reasonably say that the interviewer was speaking out of bias when it came to Japanese culture, and that she was wrong to think so. If that were the case - then I'm even gladder that the question came out and Ishiguro had a chance to put things right.
Thank you Crystal for expanding on Gisela’s contribution in a thoughtful and sensitive manner
God, NPR people are so predictable and trite.