Diversions in quarantine: Tom Stoppard, “Leopoldstadt”; Flaubert, “Madame Bovary”; Kazuo Ishiguro, “Klara and the Sun”; Simone Weill, “The Iliad or the Poem of Force”; Tim Snyder, “Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary”; Walter Isaacson, “Code Breaker”; Jac Schaeffer, “WandaVision”
Diversions in quarantine: Tom Stoppard, “Leopoldstadt”; Flaubert, “Madame Bovary”; Kazuo Ishiguro, “Klara and the Sun”; Simone Weill, “The Iliad or the Poem of Force”; Tim Snyder, “Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary”; Walter Isaacson, “Code Breaker”; Jac Schaeffer, “WandaVision”
Like his other novels, deceptively laconic prose with astonishing depth. The central character, Klara, is a very advanced android working hard to approximate human feeling. Ishiguro's artistic achievement is really astonishing: a character who is by definition flat that nevertheless engages your emotions. Klara's journey is ultimately tragic because she cannot exceed her built-in limitations, and her lifespan is short. But her limitations highlight what it means to be human.
Diversions in quarantine: Tom Stoppard, “Leopoldstadt”; Flaubert, “Madame Bovary”; Kazuo Ishiguro, “Klara and the Sun”; Simone Weill, “The Iliad or the Poem of Force”; Tim Snyder, “Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary”; Walter Isaacson, “Code Breaker”; Jac Schaeffer, “WandaVision”
Your thoughts on the Ishiguro? I’ve read a couple of others, but not this one.
Like his other novels, deceptively laconic prose with astonishing depth. The central character, Klara, is a very advanced android working hard to approximate human feeling. Ishiguro's artistic achievement is really astonishing: a character who is by definition flat that nevertheless engages your emotions. Klara's journey is ultimately tragic because she cannot exceed her built-in limitations, and her lifespan is short. But her limitations highlight what it means to be human.