Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation with Kate Mosse for World Book Night

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@pohyee3065 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a 82 yr old Singaporean woman and this has never happened before. After I read Klara and the sun, I had this dream. I was trying to get out of bed, but I told myself that I can't as I haven't downloaded data to myself and I had to!

@RoxanneM- 3 жыл бұрын

Poh Yee, do you think that was you in a next life? Or just Klara in you? Fascinating.

@JoanSubiratsLlaveria 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t understand why this video doesn’t have millions of views and comments. Beautiful

@neversaynever4226 2 жыл бұрын

Because not everyone reads book nowadays, it is too dangerous.

@siwolkan 2 жыл бұрын

the books that stay with me are books that make me discover something about myself that I knew but could never express

@ProjectEnglishII 3 жыл бұрын

I just finished reading Klara and the Sun today and am now bingeing on interviews with K.I. Such an interesting man and a great writer. I agree that his themes are usually the same, as he says: love, memory, family, and the nature of humanity.

@jordanfreytag893 3 жыл бұрын

This is just such a joyful interview. A total delight to listen and relisten to.

@doragrisetti5761 Жыл бұрын

it must be my 10th time I listen to this marvelous interview, looking forward to read Klara and the Sun, how to buy it from you, the British Library, and to whom I can give it to, as a gift, such a wealth of thoughts and emotions. Thank you "for your company".

@susydyson1750 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you fron Peru

@kaylaburrell4637 2 жыл бұрын

Earlier this week, I finished Klara and the Sun in two days. I am about to re-read it. I have only re-read a handful of books in my life, and none so soon after the first read. Ishiguro is now one of my favorite authors, and this is only the first book of his I’ve read.

@dinacox1971 2 жыл бұрын

I worry about the modern-day reader finding his or her path. I found my path while physically roaming libraries and bookstores. How does one really stumble over a book online the same way????

@siwolkan 2 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful conversation! I agree completely with Kazuo Ishiguro. The boundaries and classifications used in bookshops work against the reader: I would have never read Klara and the sun if it were classified among science fiction!

@Ozgipsy 8 ай бұрын

It was a wonderful book. A fantastic story from a fantastic author.

@tabishumaransari 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Klara is the depiction of the 5-year old ishiguro who had just landed in the UK from Japan and is trying to make sense of a new culture from a first principles perspective

@dinacox1971 2 жыл бұрын

mine was Jane Eyre. I really did think I had discovered it for many years. I had found in cheap paperback at Gibsons (small town precursor to Walmart). My family was not educated and no one pointed out to me that it was a classic. I was 9 years old. I still have that very book.

@yoshitomosaito8879 3 жыл бұрын

I wear a pair of glasses when I deal with computer or reading books. But as I look at mountains from my daily spot in Denver Colorado, I can see the peaks very clearly without glasses. Metaphorically speaking, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun requires reading glasses when I try to enjoy the details of writing. At the same instance, I clearly see the long view of the story without any aid of glasses. I guess that I naturally need multiple or three dimensional perspectives to understand everything or anything as a sculptor. This could be important for others to consider.

@diogenes1815 2 жыл бұрын

I think its often identification with, or sympathy for, the central character that resonates with me after I finish a book.

@sorentso 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video 👍

@dinacox1971 2 жыл бұрын

I am in the middle of reading Klara right now. I normally am a relatively fast reader, but I find myself slowing and rereading paragraph after paragraph to savor this wonderful experience. I remember feeling this with Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go. Thank you for the discussion of genre. I deeply agree and it is just a nice reminder to me to remember to seek throughout the 'book store'. I do not think that I have a reading genre. Favorites range from Graham Greene to Kazue Ishiguro to P.D. James to Steinbeck and on and on.

@nelli616 3 жыл бұрын

For me the book that lingered has been Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. I have had so many unanswered questions after I read it.

@johnmartin2813 2 жыл бұрын

The books that reverberate in my memory are the novels of Dickens. Whereas the novels of, say, Ayn Rand I'm busy forgetting even as I'm reading them.

@rv.9658 2 жыл бұрын

It's exceedingly therapeutic to listen to him talk, idek why

@melissahouse1296 3 жыл бұрын

What a joy such a wonderful interview thank you : )

@francianogal443 3 жыл бұрын

Marvellous! Thanks!

@davegriff9431 2 жыл бұрын

The 'white space' referred to by Kate re. Klara's emotions and Kazuo's revelation that he had no preconceived 'value' for how she feels was revelatory. I found myself suspecting we were being led to worry about Klara's 'humanity' were she to give up her identity for that of Josie. The sentient AI? Klara was not allowed to feel self-pity... so Klara was not sentient? Or possibly extremely heroic!