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- The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Kazuo Ishiguro in the World
- Part II Literature, Music, and Film
- 6 The Ishiguro Archive
- 7 The Unconsoled of The Unconsoled
- 8 ‘A More Sophisticated Imitation’
- 9 Ishiguro and Genre Fiction
- 10 Ishiguro’s TV and Film Scripts
- 11 ‘I’m a Songwriter at Heart, Even When I’m Writing Novels’
- Part III Ethics, Affect, Agency, and Memory
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
6 - The Ishiguro Archive
from Part II - Literature, Music, and Film
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2023
- The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Kazuo Ishiguro in the World
- Part II Literature, Music, and Film
- 6 The Ishiguro Archive
- 7 The Unconsoled of The Unconsoled
- 8 ‘A More Sophisticated Imitation’
- 9 Ishiguro and Genre Fiction
- 10 Ishiguro’s TV and Film Scripts
- 11 ‘I’m a Songwriter at Heart, Even When I’m Writing Novels’
- Part III Ethics, Affect, Agency, and Memory
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To …
Summary
This chapter is devoted to Ishiguro’s archive and aims to suggest ways in which our understanding of the author’s work can be developed and enhanced by an examination of his drafts, notes, plans and other documents. It first offers a brief description of the scope and contents of Ishiguro’s papers, which the author carefully selected, organized, and prepared before their transfer to the Harry Ransom Center. It then discusses his conscientious methods of composition as revealed by the archives and as presented by Ishiguro himself in an explanatory piece entitled ‘How I Write’: months or years of planning precede the first formal drafts, which are extensively revised or sometimes discarded altogether. As a case study, the chapter examines some of the ‘precursors’ to The Remains of the Day in order to show how access to the archives and preliminary steps to a published text may illuminate the complex process of creation.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro , pp. 91 - 107Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023