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Chargement... Un artiste du monde flottant (1986)par Kazuo Ishiguro
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”Un artiste du monde flottant” de Kazuo Ishiguro fait entrer le lecteur dans l’intériorité de la pensée vagabonde du peintre Masuji Ono. La guerre terminée, le Japon est alors à cheval entre tradition et modernité, peinture Ukiyo et art plus individuel, remords des actions passées et volonté de s’ouvrir sur l’avenir. Un roman introspectif, à la construction complexe, qui jette un regard sans complaisance sur un peuple face aux bouleversements de la société. ( )
Ishiguro describes the genesis of his second novel by referring to his first: “There was a subplot in A Pale View of Hills about an old teacher who has to rethink the values on which he’s built his life. I said to myself, I would like to write a full-blown novel about a man in this situation – in this case, an artist whose career becomes contaminated because he happens to live at a certain time.” ... Ishiguro’s fiction has certainly mined the complexities involved in the unreliable, first-person narrator. An Artist of the Floating World is perhaps the supreme example of his art. It is, at face value, deeply Japanese, but many of its themes – secrecy, regret, discretion, hypocrisy and loss – are also to be found in the 20th-century English novel. “An Artist of the Floating World” is a sensitive examination of the turmoil in postwar Japan, a time when certainties were overturned, gender politics shifted, the hierarchy of the generations seemed to topple and even the geography of cities changed. All this is made more poignant when seen through the eyes of a man who is rejected by the future and who chooses to reject his own past. In the second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, the teacher of discredited values is the narrator and main character. Mr. Ono is a retired painter and art master, and as in A Pale View of Hills, the story bobs about between reminiscences of different periods of the hero's life. Not that Mr. Ono is a hero: in fact, he is the least admirable and sympathetic of Ishiguro's chief characters, an opportunist and timeserver, adapting his views and even his artistic style to the party in power. So it comes that in the Thirties he deserts his first, westernizing master of painting for the strict, old-fashioned style and patriotic content of the imperialist, propaganda art. It is not unusual to find new novels by good writers, novels with precise wording, witty phrases, solid characterizations, scenes that engage. Good writers abound - good novelists are very rare. Kazuo Ishiguro is that rarity. His second novel, ''An Artist of the Floating World,'' is the kind that stretches the reader's awareness, teaching him to read more perceptively. The year 1945, like 1830 and 1914, now seems a natural watershed – above all in countries which experienced national defeat, social upheaval and military occupation. An Artist of the Floating World, a beautiful and haunting novel by the author of A Pale View of the Hills, consists of the rambling reminiscences of a retired painter set down at various dates in the Japan of the late Forties. Americanisation is in full swing, national pride has been humbled, and the horror of the bombed cities and the loss of life is beginning to be counted. The young soldiers who came back from the war are turning into loyal corporation men, eager to forget the Imperial past and to dedicate the remainder of their lives to resurgent capitalism. Ishiguro’s narrator, Masuji Ono, has lost his wife and son but lives on with two daughters, one of whom is married. Were it not for his anxieties over his second daughter’s marriage negotiations, Ono could be left to subside into the indolence of old age. As it is, ‘certain precautionary steps’ must be taken against the investigations to be pursued, as a matter of course, by his prospective son-in-law. The past has its guilty secrets which Ono must slowly and reluctantly bring back to consciousness. Appartient à la série éditorialePrix et récompensesListes notables
La 4e de couverture indique : "«"Gisaburo, dit-il, après un long silence, n'a pas eu la vie drôle. Son talent a complètement périclité. Ceux qu'il aimait sont morts depuis longtemps ou l'ont abandonné. Même du temps de notre jeunesse, c'était déjà un type triste, solitaire." Mori-san marqua une pause. "Mais parfois, nous buvions et nous nous amusions avec les femmes des quartiers de plaisir. C'est ce que les gens appellent le monde flottant : c'était un monde, Ono, dont Gisaburo connaissait toute la valeur."» Le peintre Masugi Ono, vieux maître de l'art officiel nippon, songe à sa jeunesse bohème et se remémore ce «monde flottant» qu'il a tant fréquenté. Confronté à l'émergence d'une nouvelle société ouverte à l'Occident, il interroge son passé et tente de donner un sens à sa vie dans le Japon de l'après-guerre. Évocation d'une vie et d'un monde révolus, réflexion toute en nuances sur la finalité de l'œuvre d'art, Un artiste du monde flottant est un livre envoûtant." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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