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HUMANISM IN KAZUO ISHIGURO’S NOVEL “REMAINS OF THE DAY”
CONTENTS

	Pages
INTRODUCTION	5
MAIN PART
1.Humanism as a literary genre in English literature	9
2. Kazuo Ishiguro’s life	11
3. Literary analysis of “Remains of the day”	23
CONCLUSION	26
REFERENCES	27

INTRODUCTION

Ishiguro is the author of eight books, which have been published in 50 languages. Ishiguro also wrote screenplays for British television as well as for the feature films The Saddest Music in the World (2003), The White Countess (2005), and Living (2022). The latter was based on Kurosawa Akira’s Ikiru (1952; “To Live”), and Ishiguro received an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay.

Kazuo Ishiguro is considered the most prominent English-speaking literary figure of the first half of the twentieth century. His origin is Japanese. He was actually from Japan, but he wrote his works in English. Despite this, he is still considered one of the outstanding writer in English literature. He himself and his writings are influential one.

Kazuo Ishiguro contributed to the English literature with his novels and other works.Ishiguro set his first two novels in Japan; however, in several interviews, he said that he has little familiarity with Japanese writing and that his works bear little resemblance to Japanese fiction. In an interview in 1989, when discussing his Japanese heritage and its influence on his upbringing, he stated, "I'm not entirely like English people because I've been brought up by Japanese parents in a Japanese speaking home.
Some of Ishiguro's novels are set in the past. Never Let Me Go has science fiction qualities and a futuristic tone; however, it is set in the 1980s and 1990s, and takes place in a parallel world very similar to ours. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, takes place in an unnamed Central European city. The Remains of the Day is set in the large country house of an English lord in the period surrounding World War II.
An Artist of the Floating World is set in an unnamed Japanese city during the Occupation of Japan following the nation's surrender in 1945. The narrator is forced to come to terms with his part in World War II. He finds himself blamed by the new generation who accuse him of being part of Japan's misguided foreign policy, and is forced to confront the ideals of the modern times as represented by his grandson. Ishiguro said of his choice of time period, "I tend to be attracted to pre-war and postwar settings because I'm interested in this business of values and ideals being tested, and people having to face up to the notion that their ideals weren't quite what they thought they were before the test came.
An Artist of the Floating World is set in an unnamed Japanese city during the Occupation of Japan following the nation's surrender in 1945. The narrator is forced to come to terms with his part in World War II. He finds himself blamed by the new generation who accuse him of being part of Japan's misguided foreign policy, and is forced to confront the ideals of the modern times as represented by his grandson. Ishiguro said of his choice of time period, "I tend to be attracted to pre-war and postwar settings because I'm interested in this business of values and ideals being tested, and people having to face up to the notion that their ideals weren't quite what they thought they were before the test came.
Literary awards
1982: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for A Pale View of Hills
1986: Whitbread Prize for An Artist of the Floating World
1989: Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day
2017: Nobel Prize in Literature
2017: American Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award.