Winner of the Nobel Prize and a capacious talent with his feet firmly in the English tradition of the novel, Kazuo Ishiguro has carved out a slow-growing but astounding career as a post-Proust writer who can morph everything from Arthurian legend to the novels of Jane Austen into a profound meditation on the place of memory in trauma and trauma in memory.

In this eight-week lecture-based course, we’ll explore four of his novels, spanning his output to find the themes that haunt him—and us, modern readers caught in the vortex of fallible memories and our historical chaos.

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Syllabus:

9/28/2022 A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (1982), Part One (chapters 1 – 6)

10/5/2022 A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (1982), Part Two (chapters 7 – 11)

10/12/2022 THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (1989), Prologue Through Day Two, Afternoon

(Darlington Hall through Mortimer’s Pond, Dorset)

10/19/2022 THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (1989), Day Three, Morning through Day Six,

Evening (Taunton, Somerset, through Weymouth)

10/26/2022 WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS (2000), Parts One through Three

(chapters 1 – 11)

11/2/2022 WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS (2000), Parts Four through Seven

(chapters 12 – 23)

11/9/2022 THE BURIED GIANT (2015), Part One

11/16/2022 THE BURIED GIANT (2015), Parts Two through Four