Kazuo Ishiguro, a British novelist and recipient of both the Booker Prize (1989) and Nobel Prize in Literature (2017), is renowned for exploring the fragile boundaries between memory and imagination. This ten week SDG examines how Ishiguro’s understated prose reveals profound moral reflection and quiet emotional depth. We will read three of his novels—A Pale View of Hills (his debut, exploring the unreliability of memory, trauma, and self deception); The Buried Giant (a post Arthurian meditation on forgetting and forgiveness); and The Remains of the Day (a poignant study of duty, purpose, and self worth). In addition, we will view the film Living, for which Ishiguro was the Oscar nominated screenwriter, and sample his short story collection Nocturnes. Join us in discussing Ishiguro’s haunting vision of what it means to remember, to serve, and, ultimately, to live.

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