The Remains of the Day

基本信息

Series:Vintage International

Format:Paperback 256 pages

Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Imprint:Vintage

ISBN:9780679731726

Published:12 Sep 1990

Weight:181g

Dimensions:203 x 132 x 14.22 (mm)

Language:English

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书籍简介

《长日留痕》是英籍日裔小说家石黑一雄创作的长篇小说。

小说围绕英国典型传统男管家史蒂文斯的六天驾车旅行展开，以传统的英式贵族府邸达林顿府为空间背景，以第二次世界大战后的英国为现实背景，以两次世界大战之间的英国为叙事背景，展现了主人公对职业历程的回顾和人生价值的思考。小说通过史蒂文斯的叙事，表现出史蒂文斯在贵族绅士传统文化和大英帝国没落时期对往昔辉煌的怀旧与思考，更是揭示了二战后英国社会普遍存在的对贵族传统、绅士文化传统、贵族政治传统以及举世瞩目的大英帝国殖民霸主地位的怀旧情结。

《长日留痕》延续了石黑一雄前两部小说反思战争的主题，通过一个英国管家的视角来展现两次世界大战期间英国中上层社会的生活。在作品中，石黑一雄以他一贯娴熟的零散回忆的手法展开故事。回忆是理解石黑一雄作品的最重要的关键词。《长日留痕》中，管家史蒂文斯的回忆超越了个人的回忆层面，延伸至更深刻的集体记忆层面、民族记忆层面。主人公不仅是在回忆中追述自己的一生，也在回忆中追寻自己的存在的文化记忆、身份记忆、甚至是隐藏在背后的历史记忆。

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize and the basis for an award-winning film.

This is Kazuo Ishiguro’s profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the “great gentleman,” Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness,” and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

作者简介

石黑一雄（Kazuo Ishiguro，1954——），日裔英国小说家。

1954年11月8日，石黑一雄生于日本长崎，1960年随家人移居英国，先后毕业于肯特大学和东安格利亚大学，并于1982年获得英国国籍。1983年开始发表小说，其主要作品有《群山淡景》、《浮世画家》和《长日将尽》等。曾获得1989年布克奖、2017年诺贝尔文学奖、大英帝国勋章、法国艺术及文学骑士勋章等多个奖项，与鲁西迪、奈保尔被称为“英国文坛移民三雄”。

Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro’s other work includes The Buried Giant, Nocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, and An Artist of the Floating World.