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An artist of the Floating world (1986) (I- A progress of oppositions…
An artist of the Floating world (1986)
Kazuo Ishiguro
is an English novelist who was born in 1954
this extract stands for the excipit of Ishiguro's novel
I- A progress of oppositions
this extract focuses on Masuji Ono. draw attention to the next economical and social developement of Japanese society.
Consequently, Ishiguro draws a process of oppositions wich highlights the idea of change. this oppostion is expressed in terms of setting, time and characterization.
Sitting and time
: Ono is comparing the two different aspects of his district as it was in his time and as it now.
oppostion between October 1948 and June 1950
October symbolize the end of the year and the arrival of winter, may anounce a change.
June symbolize the renewal since the month corresponds to the beginning of summer, a season which is often a sign of optimism and happiness.
characterization
Ishiguro opposes Ono, an old man who's alone to a group of young men who are together.
Ono is the symbol of the passivity of the generation
young men incarnate the new society in terms of modernity, industrialization and activity.
II- A nostaligic but optimistic issue
Ono is nostalgic of his past life and the author presnets him like a lucid man, having a sensible vision of the changes that have occured around him.
The Birdge of Hesitation
privileged place for Ono because he can think of his past life and past events
symbolizes the shopping-off-place, a place which is used as a link between a melancholic past and an undeniable future.
III-
the very last sentence may be called as an open sentence since it provides a generalisation to the novel
the novel does not deal with the story of Ono alone any longer, but rather the change of a whole country.