thoughts on pic related? i read 'never let me go' by

>>8740974
>is he a better writer than his japanese comrade haruki murakami?
Yes

>>8740974
He looks like HHH but a jap

>>8740974
Ishiguro is British not Japanese

>>8740991

he was born in japan to japanese parents

Comparing Murakami to Ishiguro is like comparing Stephen King to Henry James.

I'll never understand how Murakami managed to obtain footpurchase in the literary world except to say that there probably are a lot of very sad bastards with cats cooking pasta and hoping something odd happens so they can write about it.

>>8740998
So..?

>>8741012

so he's japanese you reet

>>8741009

wind-up bird chronicle and kafka on the shore are better than most the shit peddled by your fav author

>>8741021
there isn't a single original idea in Kafka on the Shore

>>8741029

why is he so popular... murakami... i wanna non meme tier reply, if you can

>>8741021
Demonstrably false.

>>8741037
For you, what constitutes great literature, then? Because Murakami has won many a literary award, and a great deal more than most authors writing today.

>>8741035
He appeals to youth.
Loneliness and cats and name-drops and aphorisms.
The Japanese youth like that he revolts against traditional eastern writing. Western youth likes that he's eastern but accessible.
There's no secret to it, he's just trendy.

>>8741059

truly autistic reasoning. im keking

>>8741079
This was like beyond anything you could've hoped for and you called it autistic, i am stunned

>>8741012
would you consider Nabokov American simply because he had American citizenship?

Ishiguro's novels contain a sense of wistful resignation about the characters that I seldom see in other literature. He will probably be best known as an author of Japanese aesthetics which he managed to successfully adapt into Western plot structure. One of my favorites

>>8741079
He's right though.

awww CHING CHONG BING BONG