Ben Marcus reading Ishiguro

[Jochen Stremmel]

Reminds me of the Swimmer. – the story, not the movie.

2017-10-06 3:53 GMT+02:00 John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>:

> Here's a direct link for anyone not on the podcast wagon yet -
> https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/ben-marcus-reads-kazuo-ishiguro
> Haven't listened to it but Ishiguro's pretty fantastic. Never Let Me Go is
> an exquisite accomplishment and I'm glad I did as recommended and went in
> knowing nothing about it.
>
> On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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