Kazuo Ishiguro Biography

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For art is not what defines a human being, but rather a human uses his imagination and skill that is beautiful to expresses important ideas or feeling (Merriam-Webster.com). Award winning author Kazuo Ishiguro uses his novel in attempts to show the correlation between art and life.
Kazuo Ishiguro, of Japanese descent was born November 8, 1954; Nagasaki, Japan. At age five his father moved him and his family to the town of Guildford in England. Though Ishiguro moved at a young age, he remains to negate his childhood in Nagasaki having any influence on his literary capabilities. Reviewing previous works, and interviews, a reader is given the ability to explore Kazuo Ishiguro conflicting logic; Art makes humans live a life worth living. Kazuo Ishiguro is an acclaimed author with many awards provides credibility to his accomplishment, but Kazuo Ishiguro fails as an artist when he distinctively implies, art being a means of life worth living for the human society. A human society none the less that is viewed through the eyes of clones in Ishiguro’s novel, Never Let Me Go.
Lutz, R. C.’s article detailing the author, Kazuo Ishiguro, which can be found in the Revised Edition of Magill’s Survey of World Literature, explains all of Kazuo Ishiguro novels; literary art. Lutz, R.C. elegantly revises to his readers, and points out key facts that compare Kazuo Ishiguro novels to one another. Throughout the article Lutz R.C. demonstrates to the reader Kazuo Ishiguro’s literacy and artistic supremacy by means of not allowing his personality to be detected in his works, “Kazuo Ishiguro’s desire to craft complex protagonists, whose experience is radically removed from the life of their author”. In this seven page article Lutz R.C. gives ...

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