Kazuo Ishiguro "The Rest of the Day"

A native Japanese, a graduate of the literary course Malcolm Bradbury, who wrote the most English novel of the late twentieth century!

Butler Stevens, without fear and reproach served the lord Darlington, talks about how he developed a sense of duty and the ability to put the right people in the right place, demonstrating a truly samurai isolation in the framework of his code of service.

AT 1989 for "The Rest of the Day" Ishiguro unanimously received Booker (and this was, perhaps, the only decision of the Booker Committee for the entire history of the award, who did not cause any protest).

Film adaptation of the same name by James Ivory Anthony Hopkins in the title role was a great success. A Boris Akunin wrote a kind of remake of the "rest of the day" - the novel "The Coronation".

English servant (in our case - butler),strictly speaking, not rank and not a profession. This is a mission, a mission, an unthinkable (but honorable!) Cross that the protagonist Stevens takes on and carries with dignity in life.

However, under the curtain of this very life, somethingmakes us turn back, into the past, and it turns out that the world is more complicated than the subordinate business of the butler. That dignity can remain incomprehensible for the sake of what, and the cult of a gentleman - is used by cunning pragmatists not for the best purposes.

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