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“Fluid World” is the world of the night and pleasure, a spectacular display of colors, exquisite music, and ephemeral delights; it is the world of the geisha as seen and captured, in all its fleeting charm, by Japanese painting.
“Fluid World” is also the world of Japan immediately after the end of the Second World War, in the years of defeat and destruction, when traditional society, with all its hierarchy of rules, values, and lifestyles, is already leaning towards its end as the new values of reconstruction invade.
Within the fluidity of an internal narrative, where the boundaries between memory and present blur, the painter Masuji Ono, once a favorite of the militaristic regime, now old and withdrawn in his home and effectively ostracized from modern society, recalls incidents from his life and attempts to reconstruct its meaning.
In order to marry off his eldest daughter, with whom he lives, he is obliged to account for his past life and confront the distrust of the groom's family. He is thus forced to wander through his past and renounce his greatest achievements, his artworks, which he now sees sinking along with the militaristic regime that had adopted them.
This wandering leads him to an involuntary self-awareness, a painful autobiography made up of many small revelations, which, the more he strives to conceal from himself, the more pronounced they appear in the reader's consciousness.
The works of his master Mori-san, a traditional painter of the fluid world, whose teachings Masuji Ono has abandoned, now stand out more firmly as his own work dwindles and fades into the irrelevance of a painful past.
In a web of multiple, layered ironies, from insights and disillusions that alternate in the fluid consciousness of the narrator, Ishiguro finds the narrative equivalent of the fluid world he describes: an art of delicate balances and contrasts, a succinct, allusive writing capable of capturing an entire architecture of fleeting meanings and subtle stirrings.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
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- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Publisher
- Vivliopoleion tis Estias
- Original Title
- AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD
- Publishers
- Estia Bookstore
- Type
- Prose
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 218
- Publication Date
- 1990
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789600502213
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