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  1. It is not necessary that artists always occupy a decadent and enclosed world. My conscience, Sensei, tells me I cannot remain forever an artist of the floating world. Related Characters: Masuji Ono (speaker), Kuroda, Seiji Moriyama, Mori-san. Related Themes: Page Number and Citation: 179-180.

  2. An Artist of the Floating World employs the clear, dispassionate descriptions of middle-class life that characterize realist texts, but depicts a world in which any idea of truth is undermined by the shifting nature of memory and popular understandings of history. In this way it combines the language of realism with the fractured picture of reality typical of postmodern texts.

  3. An Artist of the Floating World Quotes and Analysis. If on a sunny day you climb the steep path leading up from the little wooden bridge still referred to around here as the "Bridge of Hesitation," you will not have to walk far before the roof of my house becomes visible between the tops of two gingko trees.

  4. An Artist of the Floating World. An Artist of the Floating World (1986) [1] is a novel by 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 ...

    • Kazuo Ishiguro
    • 1986
  5. October 1948. The novel begins in an unnamed city in Japan in October 1948. The narrator is Masuji Ono, a retired artist who lost both his son and wife during the war which also caused serious damage to his beautiful house. Ono recalls the previous month’s visit of his older daughter Setsuko and her son Ichiro who live in a different town.

  6. 11. My conscience, Sensei, tells me I cannot remain forever an artist of the floating world. Masuji Ono, November 1949. Newly awakened to and burdened with the problems of poverty and corruption in Japan, Ono comes to see Mori-san's focus on the floating world as frivolous.

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  8. Context. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro is a first-person narration, set in post-World War II Japan, in the historical fiction genre. Narrator and protagonist Masuji Ono was once a great painter but, on reminiscing about his life since the war, notices that attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed.

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