![]() Kazuo Ishiguro is a British author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017. Movie Trailer for The Remains of the Day (1993) ![]() Indeed - why should I not admit it? - in that moment, my heart was breaking.Īfter all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. ![]() ![]() But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness,” and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the “great gentleman,” Lord Darlington. Here is Kazuo Ishiguro’s profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. ![]()
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