He lost his son in the war but, on the whole, Ono is satisfied with his life. His oldest daughter is married with a child and his younger daughter is in the middle of marriage negotiations. It’s an English major’s delight.īy 1948, Masuji Ono has retired from his work as a successful painter. They’re lying to themselves for a reason I get to discover for myself. They’re not lying to the reader because they’re a criminal. Second, I get to psychoanalyze the narrator. First, I get two stories the for the price of one between what the narrator is telling me and what’s actually happening.
These kinds of characters allow me to do two of my favorite things. Others can see the disconnection, but they can’t. Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World reminded me just how much I love unreliable narrators who are unreliable because they have deliberately disconnected themselves from the world around them.
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