
The Remains of the Day
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Narrateur(s):
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Dominic West
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Auteur(s):
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning masterpiece became an international bestseller on publication, was adapted into an award-winning film and has since come to be regarded as a modern classic.
The Remains of the Day is a spellbinding portrayal of a vanished way of life and a haunting meditation on the high cost of duty. It is also one of the most subtle, sad and humorous love stories ever written. It is the summer of 1956, when Stevens, a man who has dedicated himself to his career as a perfect butler in the one-time great house of Darlington Hall, sets off on a holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and, unexpectedly, into his own past, especially his friendship with the housekeeper, Miss Kenton. As memories surface of his lifetime "in service" to Lord Darlington, and of his life between the wars, when the fate of the continent seemed to lie in the hands of a few men, he finds himself confronting the dark undercurrent beneath the carefully run world of his employer.
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Ce que les critiques en disent
“This is a work that goes to the heart of a lost life. Beautifully composed, totally unsentimental, immeasurably tender.” (Harold Pinter, The Observer)
“Apart from being suspenseful, intriguing, elegiac and politically astute, this is also the funniest novel I've read in ages.... Both subtle and humane.... Simply read it for pleasure, and be richly rewarded.” (Jonathan Coe, The Guardian)
“A perfect novel. I couldn't put it down.” (Ann Beattie)
“Marvellous.... Superb.” (The Globe and Mail)
“Brilliant.... A story both beautiful and cruel.” (Salman Rushdie, The Observer)
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Great performance
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Really love it
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Gobsmacking
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First off narration is awesome! Really amazing performance by West.
Secondly, this is as good as the reviews suggest, but you have to get into it a bit and go beyond the surface. On the surface it is literally numerous boring discussions about minutiae like the placement of a dustpan (how I would imagine Downton Abbey to be).
But once you stick with it a bit and start to doubt the narrator, you see that this book it about everything that they are not actually discussing. Probably best to have a bit of knowledge about inter war period in Britain as well.
Overall really a specItacular book from Ishiguro and superb narration from West (McNulty).
Indeed, Mr. Stevens
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A Beautiful and Poignant Read
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Masterpiece
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Stevens, an English butler reminisces on his life at Darlington Hall in this Kazuo Ishiguro novel.
After the death of Lord Darlington, and a pruning of the staff, Stevens is in need of a skilled housekeeper and sets out to recruit Miss Kenton to her former role. During his travels to her home in the country, we learn progressively more about Lord Darlington, and Miss Kenton through a series of flashbacks, and it becomes obvious there's more to the stories as pieces come together.
This was a warm and cuddly mystery that I couldn't put down. And it turns out it was adapted to film in the 90s, so I can spend a little more time with Stevens and the English countryside.
If you enjoy slice-of-life historical fiction, this could be your next read.
A Life In Servitude
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Excellent Book
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Perfect narrator for a perfect book
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