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Crooner - Nocturne
Quels sacrifices un musicien doit-il accepter pour briller? Un saxophoniste talentueux envisage la chirurgie esthétique pour sortir de l’ombre tandis qu’un crooner sur le déclin est prêt à bouleverser sa vie pour rester dans la lumière. Tous deux tentent, à leur façon, de vivre de leur passion quand les espoirs s’émoussent.
Kazuo Ishiguro conte, avec poésie et délicatesse, deux nouvelles musicales empreintes d’une douce mélancolie.
Kazuo Ishiguro conte, avec poésie et délicatesse, deux nouvelles musicales empreintes d’une douce mélancolie.
272 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2020
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Kazuo Ishiguro
79 books41.7k followersSir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. He now lives in London.
His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. His latest novel is The Buried Giant, a New York Times bestseller. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.
His novels An Artist of the Floating World (1986), When We Were Orphans (2000), and Never Let Me Go (2005) were all shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945". In 2017, the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing him in its citation as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. His latest novel is The Buried Giant, a New York Times bestseller. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.
His novels An Artist of the Floating World (1986), When We Were Orphans (2000), and Never Let Me Go (2005) were all shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945". In 2017, the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing him in its citation as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
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February 9, 2024
Si la première nouvelle est assez ordinaire et empreinte de nostalgie, la deuxième est formidable.
October 7, 2022
The first part is necessary for the second one which was… unexpected. From a seamlessly boring intro to a second half that dives into a very hot topic from today. Wow. I give it a 4/5 because as necessary as the first part was to lay things down, it could’ve been less awfully boring.
January 21, 2024
Un plaisir de lecture que ces deux nouvelles qui se répondent. Brèves mais entières.
Les deux nouvelles prennent leur sens justement parce qu’elles sont ensemble. L’une ne va pas sans l’autre. Écriture simple, précise. J’ai aimé.
Les deux nouvelles prennent leur sens justement parce qu’elles sont ensemble. L’une ne va pas sans l’autre. Écriture simple, précise. J’ai aimé.
July 11, 2024
Assez déçue par ces deux courtes histoires. L'écriture est top, comme toujours avec Kazuo Ishiguro, mais les histoires en elles mêmes ne m'ont pas beaucoup touchées, elles avaient beaucoup de potentiel.
September 21, 2025
Une jolie nouvelle pleine de clins d’œil au lecteur. Sous les voûtes vénitiennes, une voix fanée s’élève comme une prière nocturne. Ishiguro enserre l’éclat du passé et l’ombre de la séparation dans une même mélodie, où l’amour se consume doucement, sans jamais s’éteindre.
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