Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day      - 258 oldal

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It is the summer of 1956, and the ageing butler of Darlington Hall takes a rare holiday. But it is a journey that will also take him deep into his past. The Remains of the Day is a remarkable story: a man's exploration of his own life, and his heart-breaking attempt to make sense of it.

"And it's one of the privileges of being born English that no matter who you are, no matter if you're rich or poor, you're born free and you're born so that you can express your opinion freely, and vote in your member of parliament or vote him out. That's what dignity's really about"

"to meet the challenges of each new age means discarding old, sometimes well-loved methods"

"After all, what we can ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?"

"in bantering lies the key to human warmth"