The remains of the day
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
245 pages ; 21 cm.
Edition
1st Vintage international ed.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
Summary
The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.
Call Number
FICTION ISHIGURO
Publication Date
1990 1989-1990
Language
English
ISBN
9780679731726 9780394251349 9780394573434
The remains of the day
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xxix, 213 pages ; 22 cm.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Summary
Here 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.
Call Number
FIC ISHIGURO
Publication Date
2012, 2012 1989
Language
English
ISBN
9780307961440
The remains of the day
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Production / Publication Information
[Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Audio, p2012.
Summary
It is the summer of 1956, and the aging butler of Darlington Hall takes a rare holiday. But it is a journey that will also take him deep into his past. The Remains of the Day is a remarkable story: a man's exploration of his own life, and his heart-breaking attempt to make sense of it.
Call Number
CD FICTION ISHIGURO
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
ISBN
9781452638355 9781452608358
The remains of the day
Format:
DVD
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Special edition
Production / Publication Information
Burbank, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, p2001.
Summary
The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
Call Number
DVD REM
Publication Date
2001, 2001 1993
Language
English
ISBN
9780767848855
UPC
043396710979
Los restos del día
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
253 pages ; 21 cm
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Production / Publication Information
Nueva York : Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC, 2018.
Summary
"Inglaterra, julio de 1956. Stevens, el narrador, fue durante treinta años mayordomo de Lord Darlington, quien murió hace tres años, y su propiedad pertenece ahora a un norteamericano. Su nuevo patrón regresará por unas semanas a su país, y le ha ofrecido al mayordomo el auto para que disfrute de unas vacaciones. Y Stevens se embarca en un viaje por el país rumbo a Weymouth, donde vive la señora Benn, antigua ama de llaves de Darlington Hall. Jornada a jornada, Ishiguro desplegará ante el lector una novela perfecta de luces y claroscuros para desvelar una realidad mucho más amarga que los amables paisajes que el mayordomo deja atrás. Porque Stevens averigua que Lord Darlington fue un miembro de la clase dirigente inglesa que se dejó seducir por el fascismo y conspiró activamente para conseguir una alianza entre Inglaterra y Alemania. Y descubre, y también el lector, que hay algo peor incluso que haber servido a un hombre indigno."--Amazon.com. Summary from English version: The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him-- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel-- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.
Call Number
SPANISH FIC ISHIGURO
Publication Date
2018, 1994
Language
Spanish English
ISBN
9780525563747
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