S3 - The Remains of the Day 1989
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Where was Kazuo Ishiguro born?
Nagasaki, Japan
What occupation did Ishiguro’s father have?
Oceanographer
When did the Ishiguro family move to Great Britain?
1960
Why did the Ishiguro family move the Great Britain?
Father worked on an oil drilling project in the North Sea
Where did Ishiguro first study?
University of Kent
What degrees would Ishiguro earn at the University of Kent?
English and Philosophy
When did Ishiguro graduate from the University of Kent?
1978
What did Ishiguro do after graduation?
Working with poor/homeless people
Who is Ishiguro’s wife?
Lorna McDougall
Where would Ishiguro study at after graduation?
University of East Anglia
What did Ishiguro study at the University of East Anglia?
Creative Writing
Who were Ishiguro’s teachers?
Angela Carter and Malcolm Bradbury
What other British writer did Malcolm Bradbury also teach?
Ian McEwan
When did Ishiguro gain a masters degeree?
1980
Where was Ishiguro’s first short stories published in?
Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers
What was Ishiguro’s first novel?
A Pale View of Hills
When was A Pale View of Hills published?
1982
What is the plot/storyline of A Pale View of Hills?
Etsuko(Japanese Woman)’s narrative of her life in England after the Nagasaki bombings
What prize did A Pale View of Hills win?
Royal Society of Literature’s Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
What is the Royal Society of Literature’s Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize now known as?
Ondaatje Prize
What is the main criteria of the Ondaatje Prize?
A work that evokes the spirit of a place
What writers also won the Ondaatje Prize?
Hilary Mantel and Anna Burns
What is Ishiguro’s second novel?
An Artist of the Floating World
What prize did An Artist of the Floating World win?
Whitbread Book of the Year Prize and shortlisted for Booker Prize
What other books were shortlisted for the Booker Prize along with Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World/
Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils
What is the storyline/plot of An Artist of the Floating World ?
Follows Masuriji Ono, an artist working for Japanese propaganda in WW2 now comes to terms with what he has done after the war
What prize did The Remains of the Day win?
Booker Prize
When was The Remains of the Day adapted into a film?
1993
Who created the adapation for The Remains of the Day?
Merchant Ivory Productions
Who are the founders of Merchant Ivory Productions?
James Ivory and Ismail Merchant
Who wrote most of the films that Merchant Ivory Productions used for adaptations?
Ruth Jhabvala
What novels did Ruth Jhabvala adapt for Merchant Ivory Productions?
“Howard’s End and A Room With a View” by E.M Forster, and Mr&Mrs Brtdige, and Henry James
What is Ishiguro’s fourth novel?
The Unconsoled
What is the plot/storyline of The Unconsoled?
Ryder, a classical musician deals with more and more demands
Who gave Ishiguro inspiration for The Unconsoled?
Franz Kafka and Milan Kundera
What is Ishiguro’s 5th novel?
When We Were Orphans
What is Ishiguro’s 6th novel?
Never Let Me Go
What are the 2 novels that are outliers from Ishiguro’s usual style?
The Unconsoled and Never Let Me Go
Why is Never Let Me Go different?
It is science-fiction
Who wrote the adapation for Never Let Me Go?
Alex Garland
Who directed the film adaptation of Never Let Me Go?
Mark Romanek
Who starred in Never Let Me Go?
Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield
What films has Ishigruo screenwritten for?
The Saddest Music in the World, The White Countess, and Living
What film adaptation allowed Ishiguro to gain an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay?
Living
What is Living adapted from?
Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru
What is Ishiguro’s 7th novel?
The Buried Giant (2015)
What is Ishiguro’s most recent novel and 8th?
Klara and the Sun
What is the setting of The Buried Giant?
Post-Arthurian England in 5th/6th Century
When did Ishiguro gain the Nobel Prize for Literature?
2017
How many Japanese born people are there that have gained Nobel Prizes for Literature?
3
Who are the other Japanese born recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Yasunari Kawabata and Kenzaburo Oe
How did the Nobel Prize Committee describe Ishiguro’s works?
Novels uncover the abyss beneath an illusory sense of connection with the world
Who delivered the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony speech for Literature?
Professor Sara Danius
When did Miss Kenton arrive to Darlington Hall?
1922
Who coined the term unreliable narrator?
Wayne Booth
What work did Wayne Booth create to coin the term unreliable narrator?
The Rhetoric of Fiction
What is an unreliable narrator?
A narrator who judges themselves/others differently contrary to their own actions
What are the three central tasks of a narrator according to James Phelan?
Report, Interpret, Evaluate/Judge
Who stars as Mr. Stevens in the film adaptation of The Remains of the Day?
Anthony Hopkins
What radio program does Mr.Stevens listen to to help his bantering?
Twice a Week or More
When was Mein Kampf published?
1925
When did Hitler become Chancellor?
1933
What was the Munich Agreement?
A deal with Hitler and the Allies, allowing Germany to regain territory
When was the Munich Agreement signed?
1938
Who was the British Prime Minister right before WW2?
Neville Chamberlain