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...member jury, which included Catherine Deneuve and Kazuo Ishiguro (author of Remains of the Day), got the message. Happily infected with Saturday-night fever, it awarded Pulp Fiction the Palme d'Or as best among the 23 entries in competition. But the picture threw the international critics into a tizz. They weren't sure they should approve of a work of popular art so enjoyably and cleverly crafted; after a week studying the snail trails of European anomie and Third World angst, watching Pulp Fiction was like sneaking out of a final exam to go on a bender...
...first glance, Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day seems the ideal subject for a Merchant Ivory adaptation. Like many of the E.M. Forster works which Merchant Ivory has produced in the past, The Remains of the Day takes place in the English countryside in a time of lost glory; each of the novel's eight sections, as in E.M. Forster's novels, even assume the name of the locale in which they are set. Likewise, Ishiguro's work is preoccupied with moral questions, just as Howard's End is. Compared to Forster's novels, though, The Remains...
Stevens is the narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro's 1988 novel, The Remains of the Day, a drama so delicate that it touches the reader deeply without applying the pressure of sentiment. The story runs on parallel tracks: the years before World War II, when Stevens worked for his beloved Lord Darlington, an aristocrat who falls into an alliance with the Nazis; and the late '50s, when ! Stevens seeks out Miss Kenton in hopes she will return as housekeeper and, perhaps, something more. In his own ornate, unknowing words, Stevens condemns himself as the English version of a "good German...
...father in the third person, talks of "military-style pep talks" to his staff and resolves to practice "bantering" -- might almost be translated from the Japanese. Yet here are all these values, in the midst of an instantly recognizable England, in 1956! The book's author, Kazuo Ishiguro, who moved to England from Nagasaki at the age of five, grew up simultaneously as a Japanese and an English schoolboy, and so can see that the two are scarcely different. "I think there are a lot of things about the Japanese way of communicating that I don't know about...
...REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf; $18.95). It is 1956, and an aging English butler looks back on his decades of service in a stately house. The meaning of his memories is not always clear to him, but it is to the reader, thanks to Japanese-born novelist Ishiguro's deadly, deadpan dissection of the British class system...