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Ben Marcus Reads Kazuo Ishiguro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Is This a Good Reparation Work?

There seems a slight sense of Ishiguro from 2001, or I think he actually was working on this in the 90s. There's a sense that he's writing about how political ideas are transmitted and how they change as one ages,. It's sort of youthful political idealism and a completely different light. And you turn on your own ideas and yet you're held to things you once said.

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