An Artist of the Floating World | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-16

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00:01:24 1 Publication history
00:02:12 2 Autobiographical elements
00:04:12 3 Title
00:05:42 4 Structure
00:06:24 5 Plot summary
00:10:38 6 Characters
00:10:47 6.1 iMasuji Ono/i
00:11:47 6.2 iNoriko/i
00:12:44 6.3 iSetsuko/i
00:13:27 6.4 iIchiro/i
00:14:08 6.5 iSuichi/i
00:14:51 6.6 iKuroda/i
00:15:29 6.7 iChishi Matsuda/i
00:16:13 6.8 iSeiji Moriyama/i
00:16:58 6.9 iDr. Saito/i
00:17:26 6.10 iMrs. Kawakami/i
00:17:59 6.11 iYasunari Nakahara/i
00:18:41 7 Themes
00:20:17 7.1 Politicisation of art
00:21:57 7.2 Unreliable narrator
00:23:54 7.3 Responsibility
00:25:05 7.4 Changing values
00:27:42 8 Literary significance



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SUMMARY
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An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an ageing painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions and in the expostulation to find a path to peace in his good will for the young white collar workers on the streets at lunchbreak. The novel also deals with the  role of people in a rapidly changing environment.
The novel falls under both historical fiction and global literature (Weltliteratur). It is known as historical fiction due to its basis on remembering the past and it draws from historical facts. It is also known as global literature as it has a broad international market and allows for a study on how the world today is interconnected.