![]() ![]() ![]() But is the curse, in fact, the only thing keeping the land together? Will Wistan plunge a fragile Britain into a renewed cycle of reprisals between Britons and Saxons? And hey, what's up with that boatman at the end-is he, like, Death? At the time of its release, The Buried Giant was heavily criticized for its rather off, even bizarre evocation of the fantasy genre. We follow Axl and Beatrice, an elderly Briton couple, as they follow a knight, Wistan, on his quest to slay Querig and free the land of its curse. ![]() The Buried Giant imagines an ancient Britain plagued by a magical mist of forgetting, exhaled by the dragon Querig. These preoccupations lie at the heart of his 2015 fantasy novel, The Buried Giant : "Does a nation remember and forget in much the same way as an individual does? What exactly are the memories of a nation? How are they shaped and controlled? Are there times when forgetting is the only way to stop a society disintegrating into chaos or war? On the other hand, can stable, free nations really be built on foundations of wilful amnesia and frustrated justice?" These questions have come back with frightening force as Ishiguro's Britain and our America face the revitalized forces of racism, inequality, and mutual suspicion, "stirring beneath our civilised streets like a buried monster awakening." Yesterday evening, Kazuo Ishiguro accepted his Nobel Prize for Literature and delivered a thoughtful, at times stirring speech on his lifelong preoccupation with memory and forgetting, the progress of nations, and human relationship. ![]()
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