Tapa blanda, 315 páginas
Idioma Russian
Publicado el 16 de Diciembre de 2018 por Эксмо.
A compelling portrait of the perfect English butler, who, at the end of his career in postwar England, reviews his life and secretly questions the "greatness" of the nobleman he served.
There's so much in here. It bears another read, and I'm very curious how they managed the film adaptation.
I didn't start getting into the story until around the 40% mark and even then, I felt like I had to make myself read it. If it hadn't been a book club pick, it'd probably be a DNF. I'm glad I stuck with it until the end. It was worth it from a literary and historical standpoint. But that ending felt incredibly depressing to me and I'm not sure it was meant to be? Was there meant to be little to no growth of the main character? Did he grow, but my own views are just so vastly different I can't see it? I have a lot of feelings to think about before my book club's discussion.
I read this book in Spanish a very long time ago. I'm curious about Ishiguro's real style, as I don't trust translations very much.
As far as my translation went, I can tell that the book is deceptively easy and "soft". It describes a few sad and wasted lives through the eyes of a narrator who was too fooled by his own preconceptions; I love books in which the narrator knows a lot less than what the reader can infer and this is the best example I know of that narrative device.
