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	Amazon.co.uk: An Artist of the Floating World: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the nightlife who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war.
		AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD was his second novel.
		It tells the story of a major Japanese artist from the 1930s, who, after the second world war, gradually comes to terms with his role in the rise of the catastrophic militarist movement that led up to the war.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/057114716X (957 words)

	An Overview of An Artist of the Floating World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		He wanted to be an artist, but his father saw that as the path to living “in squalor and poverty” and burned Ono’s paintings ceremonially when he was 15.
		Yet he was happy because he was making a living as an artist in Takeda’s studio, which mass produced paintings for foreign consumption (maybe the equivalent of paintings of Elvis on fl velvet?).
		Ono went on to become fairly well-known and respected as an artist, we think, but his preoccupation with status throughout the novel and his constant reexamination and reevaluation of his status make it difficult for the reader to accurately interpret just how wide his reputation spread.
	www.bridgewater.edu /~atrupe/ENG101/Artist_overview.htm (1438 words)

	New Statesman (1996): Artist of the floating world; Elmore Leonard's great gift is to show us as we really are: with ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		New Statesman (1996): Artist of the floating world; Elmore Leonard's great gift is to show us as we really are: with little inner life or any real faith in the future.
		Artist of the floating world; Elmore Leonard's great gift is to show us as we really are: with little inner life or any real faith in the future.
		A man with few talents and no prospects, he makes a living jumping from the top of an 80-foot ladder into a nine-foot tank of water.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:89428837&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (271 words)

	IRATIONAL.ORG - Equality is deceit, HYPE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		An artist of the floating world Hype interviews Heath Bunting.
		As an extension of the idea, he is now aiming to compile a global public telephone directory.
		As an ongoing project, he runs a "technology access centre" - a skip in central London where people are invited to upload and download old hardware, with no on-line time charges.
	www.irational.org /irational/media/hype1.html (528 words)

	Tsui Design & Research Inc. \| In The Media
		It is the birthright of every human being to live in a world of beauty; a world that is concordant with the needs and aspirations of the innermost and highest elemental powers in humankind and is expressive of the supreme intelligence and spiritual powers manifest in nature.
		The skilled artist is not satisfied with merely testing the unknown; he or she is forever questioning and re-questioning and still questioning again, the aspects of possibility--bringing these possibilities into physical form; ever beckoning the potential of failure.
		The greatest artist is he or she that encompasses the greatest dimensions of thought and observation which transform the experiences of everyday life.
	www.tdrinc.com /media.html (7924 words)

	AsiaSource Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro
		What I do know is that there is kind of an international myth about the English butler and English country life that is one that has been fed all around the world, not through highbrow history books, but through popular culture.
		But usually there's still an element of self-deception or something left there, just enough to survive, because one of the sad things about people's lives is that they are rather short.
		But I think it's perfectly possible that an author can be influenced a lot not by the writers he or she really likes, but by something they happen to read at a certain point.
	www.asiasource.org /news/special_reports/ishiguro.cfm (3296 words)

	New Statesman: Artist of the floating world; Elmore Leonard's great gift is to show us as we really are: with little ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		New Statesman: Artist of the floating world; Elmore Leonard's great gift is to show us as we really are: with little inner life or any real faith in the future.
		It is because they are like films, reporting the surfaces of our lives, the outward world of places and things that novelists usuall y ignore in order to focus on an inner world of consciousness that is itself mostly fictitious.
		His world of small-time crooks and scheming no-hopers may not be yours or mine, but it latches on to something we all recognise -- the permanently provisional way we construct our lives.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4594_131/ai_89428837 (1145 words)

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		It is a time in which the young blame their elders for the mistakes of the past, and no longer accept the validity of the floating world-which was all but destroyed by 1945.
		An Artist of the Floating World documents the inner life of one man, and portrays the changing cultural attitudes.
		These are some of the questions explored in An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro's excellent novel of postwar Japan and the musings/fate of a renowned artist who, having served the imperial cause during the war, is now very much suffering for it.
	bookswelike.net /isbn/0679722661 (1456 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: An Artist of the Floating World [Large Print] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In this case it is a Japanese artist who had favoured the (eventually) disastrous imperialist expansion of Japan that drew the country into the Second World War.
		The protagonist, Masuji Ono, once a moderately famous artist, enjoys spending his days mopping his tatami and working in his garden, although the highlight of his life are the visits from his grandson, Ichiro.
		"An Artist of the Floating World" is a beautiful book and one that leaves a deep impression without seeming to do much at all.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0786235659 (1266 words)

	Re: An Artist in the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
		It's > main character, an Artist is a man from a past many in Japan would like to > forget, its wartime past.
		It concerns his attempts to find a suitable match > for his daughter in the very strict atmosphere of arranged marriages in a > culture that is bound with honour and tradition.
		In An Artist of the Floating World, Ono attempts to justify the use of his art as propaganda which rallied the citizens on the home-front.
	www.talkaboutabook.com /group/rec.arts.books/messages/459318.html (393 words)

	KnowledgeBase: Syllabus Archive
		Characters cross the borders that separate the North from the South (Beloved), women from men (M. Butterfly), then from now (Slaughterhouse-Five; An Artist of the Floating World), major from minor characters (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern), and human animals from nonhuman animals (Wolf-Alice).
		Performances should be an interpretative engagement with the story, novel, or play rather than a direct reading.
		Mon Nov 27: An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro pp.
	www.as.wvu.edu /clcold/knowledgebase/dept_syllabi/katyryan273-F00.html (842 words)

	Floating World: Editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Floating World is proud to present the first in an occasional series of historical articles, recalling little-known figures and events from the obscure mists of antiquity.
		His spiritual regime consisted of an alteration of prayer, eating chips, and being surrounded by beautiful naked slave girls to test his vow of chastity.
		Floating World was founded in December 1999; to this day, no-one really knows why.
	home.clara.net /fworld/misc.htm (3637 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro - Paperback - 1st Vintage ...
		This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggling through the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience.
		His second novel, ''An Artist of the Floating World,'' is the kind that stretches the reader's awareness, teaching him to read more perceptively.
		Yet it's surprising a plastic artist should play so important place in the preparation of war with propagandistic pictures, draws, etc. I think in Spain, neither Picasso was considered so important about the civil war.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=UH0M2OhAKY&isbn=0679722661&itm=1 (970 words)

	Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World
		In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions.
		Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war.
		Discuss An Artist of the Floating World on the forums
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	An Artist of the Floating World (Vintage International) - Cookie Nest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro serves up a fascinating look at pre- and postwar Japan.
		The novel is the story of Masuji Ono, an artist and devotee of the "floating world" of Japanese nocturnal pleasures.
		Prior to the war, however, he was a propagandist for Japan's war effort, and this is in different ways haunting him in the wake of defeat.
	store.cookienest.com /related/an-artist-of-the-floating-world-vintage-international-id0679722661.php (275 words)

	An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro - The Books Centre
		Meanwhile, he reminisces about his past as an artist and his efforts to support Japan's war efforts through his artistic creations.
		An Artist of the Floating World tells the story of World War II from the point of the Japanese.
		The book also contrasts art as a response to the "floating world" - a world of drunken excess - and as a response to the harsh realities of this world.
	www.geocities.com /taywenkai/books/artist.html (323 words)

	Chang-rae Lee: An Artist of the Floating World 1/2 \| Asian American Innovators \| GOLDSEA
		Chang-rae Lee: An Artist of the Floating World 1/2
		I then walked into the hangar office with a light-on-my-feet feeling, not like a giddiness or anxiety but an unnerving sense of being dangerously unmoored, as though I were some astronaut creeping out into the grand maw of space, eternities roiling in the background, with too much slack in my measly little line.
		At a time when even pop culture is venturing into the margins of American life to mine experiences that haven't been blended, homogenized and distilled into sitcoms, Lee's narrator returns to the mythical center to excavate the detritus of suburban existence like some archaelogist from a remote future.
	goldsea.com /Innovators/Leecr/leecr.html (1105 words)

	Chang-rae Lee: An Artist of the Floating World 2/2 \| Asian American Innovators \| GOLDSEA
		Chang-rae Lee: An Artist of the Floating World 2/2
		But if the progression of his first three novels is an indication, Lee's narrative seems to be evolving toward the surreal sinuosity of an Ishiguro.
		But the literary establishment saw in Lee an American Ishiguro, a writer who seemed to transcend the concerns of his own ethnic group to add a cosmopolitan hue to American letters.
	goldsea.com /Innovators/Leecr/leecr2.html (911 words)

	Bumper crop \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The reader of an Ishiguro novel is plunged into the inner world and thoughts of characters whose perceptions and emotional range are distinctly limited, the narrators' vision blinkered by culture, social upbringing or class background.
		Yet it is these very limitations that allow his protagonists to cast an oblique light on the faults and prejudices of the societies they live in.
		In "An Artist of the Floating World," the narrow prism through which Masuji Ono views a Japan shattered by the Allied bombing (which caused the death of his wife and only son) calls attention to the ironclad certainties of Imperial Japan that led to this destruction in the first place.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050424/news_lz1v24never.html (1411 words)

	The WoodenBoat School - Brooklin, Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Growing up on an estuary in the southwest of England, JENNY BENNETT first went sailing when her family bought a 12' lapstrake daysailer—she was two years old.
		She is a self-taught artist and naturalist who teaches courses on keeping an illustrated journal, and for decades has led numerous walking holidays throughout New England and in the eastern Arctic.
		An avid student of arctic kayaks and Polynesian sailing canoes, Brian has built more than 20 skin-on-frame kayaks and two skin-on-frame outrigger sailing canoes in the past few years.
	www.thewoodenboatschool.com /facultystaff.html (11794 words)

	Re: An Artist in the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
		> It's > main character, an Artist is a man from a past many in Japan would like > to > forget, its wartime past.
		It concerns his attempts to find a suitable > match > for his daughter in the very strict atmosphere of arranged marriages in a > culture that is bound with honour and tradition.
		Thanks; I've been eyeing the BOT version at the library, will definitely take it out next time, for keeping me sane while I slog along on the goddamned treadmill at the gym.
	www.talkaboutabook.com /group/rec.arts.books/messages/459593.html (598 words)

	Bookfilter \| Kazuo Ishiguro - Book Discussions and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		I liked An Artist of the Floating World very much, but they are all great.
		An Artist of the Floating World in synopsis is about an aging artist who was at the forefront of the cultural/artistic movement which tied itself to the second world war in Japan.
		It's set in the "floating world", the district of his city which was abuzz with the movement at the time.
	www.bookfilter.com /link.php/7 (516 words)

	Amazon API Demo - Books - An Artist of the Floating World (Vintage International) - Chris Codes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, andquot;a floating worldandquot; of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions.
		He lost his wife and son in the war, and is now living with one of his daughters.
		I simply discarded as a literary artifact other interpretations: the advantage of being a reader is that you can give the sense you like to what you reading, so the same meaning becomes floating.
	www.chriscodes.com /store/detail/books/related_result/Book/0679722661 (719 words)

	An Artist of the Floating World Summary
		An Artist of the Floating World Summary Study Guide
		To disagree was an extreme form of treason, and men took pride in subjugating their own views to the view of the group, led by their master.
		This was a lot of power and influence to cede to one's employer or teacher, and not surprisingly this power was frequently misused.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-floating-world/themes.html (230 words)

	An Artist of the Floating World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		World War, 1939-1945; Art and the war; Fiction.
		Amazon.com: In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions.
		Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the devastation of that war, memories of his youth and of the "floating world" - the nocturnal realm of leisure, entertainment, and drink - offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise as an artist.
	isbn.nu /0754046206 (556 words)

	Review Similar to An Artist of the Floating World (Vintage International) - Computer Toaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		An early work by the award-winning author of Remains of the Day, it defies Ishiguro's British citizenship and has a most distinctly Japanese air to it, taking place largely in Japan after the bombing of Nagasaki.
		The story is continually accelerating, the story has many levels, personal, political, cultural, etc. The portrayal of the persons is very good.
		The story has an interesting setting with contrasting cultures and time perspectives.
	computertoaster.com /reviews/similaritysearch_0679722661 (513 words)

	Ishiguro's 'Never' world is not as it seems
		Their school, Hailsham, is a hermetic world unto itself, a prettily groomed English Arcadia that boasts a cool sports pavilion, spacious playing fields, a picturesque pond and winding bucolic paths.
		Rather, it's an oblique and elegiac meditation on mortality and lost innocence: a portrait of adolescence as that hinge moment in life when self-knowledge brings intimations of one's destiny, when the shedding of childhood dreams can lead to disillusionment, rebellion, newfound resolve or an ambivalent acceptance of a preordained fate.
		The reader, by now, probably suspects that Kathy, Ruth, Tommy and their fellow students are clones of some sort, and that the "donations" they are fated to make are donations of their vital organs.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/ae/articles/0410neverlet10.html (658 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Artist of the floating world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It was a creed as much as a sport and surfers, crouching low on their boards, seemed almost to be kneeling in supplication at the glassy altar of the waves.
		The exhibition, which documents surfing from the pre-war era to the endless summer of the late 1960s is an oddly poignant evocation of this earlier culture.
		Particularly striking is a shot from Waimea Bay, in which Jack Sutherland and an anonymous surfer are speeding in front of a terrible, beautiful Pacific wave.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/08/12/bajamie.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/08/16/ixartsarchleft.html (472 words)

	Bibliofemme: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
		Ono is proud of his rise to a man of stature and influence in pre-war Japan.
		The manner in which this novel was written shows a great mastery of language and understanding of the human psyche.
		An Artist of the Floating World was short listed for the Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1986.
	www.bibliofemme.com /others/floating.shtml (1089 words)

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