An Artist of the Floating World
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions. The novel attempts to ask and answer the question: what is man's role in a rapidly changing environment?
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An Artist of the Floating World
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions. The novel attempts to ask and answer the question: what is man's role in a rapidly changing environment?
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An Artist of the Floating Worl ...... rapidly changing environment?
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Un artista del mondo fluttuant ...... società in rapida evoluzione?
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《浮世畫家》(An Artist of the Floati ...... 惠特貝瑞圖書獎和英國布克獎(Booker Prize)提名。
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An Artist of the Floating Worl ...... rapidly changing environment?
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Un artista del mondo fluttuant ...... società in rapida evoluzione?
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《浮世畫家》(An Artist of the Floati ...... 惠特貝瑞圖書獎和英國布克獎(Booker Prize)提名。
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An Artist of the Floating World
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Un artista del mondo fluttuante
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浮世畫家
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