{"id":22744,"date":"2017-10-05T09:33:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=22744"},"modified":"2017-10-05T09:33:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T13:33:33","slug":"the-2017-nobel-prize-in-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2017\/10\/05\/the-2017-nobel-prize-in-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element in-legacy-container\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><a class=\"fusion-no-lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"Header 2\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"929\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Header-2-1-e1493098728843.jpg?resize=929%2C200\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-20947\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22746\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2017\/10\/05\/the-2017-nobel-prize-in-literature\/nobel-prize-featured-image\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Nobel-Prize-Featured-Image.jpg?fit=700%2C400&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"\" data-image-title=\"Nobel Prize Featured Image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Nobel-Prize-Featured-Image.jpg?fit=700%2C400&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22746\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Nobel-Prize-Featured-Image.jpg?resize=700%2C400\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Nobel-Prize-Featured-Image.jpg?resize=200%2C114&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Nobel-Prize-Featured-Image.jpg?resize=300%2C171&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Nobel-Prize-Featured-Image.jpg?resize=400%2C229&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Nobel-Prize-Featured-Image.jpg?resize=600%2C343&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Nobel-Prize-Featured-Image.jpg?fit=700%2C400&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year's Noble Prize in Literature has been awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro, \"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.\" I have read all but two of his books, and I've loved several of them. Still, I didn't see this coming!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the list of Ishiguro's work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>A Pale View of Hills<\/em> (1982)<\/li>\n<li><em>An Artist of the Floating World<\/em> (1986)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Remains of the Day<\/em> (1989)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Unconsoled<\/em> (1995)<\/li>\n<li><em>When We Were Orphans<\/em> (2000)<\/li>\n<li><em>Never Let Me Go<\/em> (2005)<\/li>\n<li><em>Noctures: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall<\/em> (2009)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Buried Giant<\/em> (2015)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning <em>The Remains of the Day<\/em> is one of my favorite novels of all time. Add to that another masterpiece in <em>The Unconsoled<\/em>, and I'm very happy his work has been recognized on this scale. Unlike many others, I liked but did not love <em>Never Let Me Go<\/em> and really had a hard time seeing the magic in <em>The Buried Giant<\/em>. However, such is my esteem for Ishiguro, regardless of what comes next I plan to read it, and I am certainly willing to give all of his work another go.<\/p>\n<p>Since most of his work was done before I started this blog, I have relatively few under review. From the earliest days of the site, here is my review of <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2008\/07\/10\/kazuo-ishiguros-the-remains-of-the-day\/\">The Remains of the Day<\/a>. And, from 2015, my disappointed (but wrong?) review of <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/03\/05\/kazuo-ishiguro-the-buried-giant\/\">The Buried Giant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For lots of extended coverage, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/#bp3\">this post<\/a> at The Complete Review, where M.A. Orthofer has been and will continue to be updating his post with links.<\/p>\n<p>For some discussion, well, I could recommend this thread over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/topic\/show\/18548296-2017-nobel-prize?comment=171540309&page=2#comment_171540309\">The Mookse and the Gripes Goodreads page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=mookse-20&l=alb&o=1&a=0679731725\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" alt=\"\" style=\"position: fixed !important; bottom: -1px !important; right: -1px !important; border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><img 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