Ben Marcus reading Ishiguro

[Smoke Teff]

I don't think it really has an identifiable genre. Maybe you'd just call it
literary. It has the kind of shadowy scenic qualities of Kafka, which
influence a lot of people mention re: Ishiguro. But Kafka's world is a bit
more cartoonish on the surface, or in its weird darkness has this
underlying mystical humor. Ishiguro's world in this story is I guess
dystopian, which maybe is a helpful genre tag. It's (the world is) both
more speculative and also more realistic than Kafka's worlds, and without
much of the humor taking up the space in between its particles.

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> And what genre is that?
>
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Everybody knows the novels but one way to experience Ishiguro that I will
>> recommend is Ben Marcus reading Ishiguro's story, "A Village after Dark,"
>> for the New Yorker Fiction Podcast. Very good pairing, one of the only
>> standouts from that particular genre for me.
>>
>
>
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