“I was very consciously trying to write for an international audience,” Kazuo Ishiguro says of The Remains of the Day in his Paris Review interview (“The Art of Fiction,” No. 196). “One of the ways I thought I could do this was to take a myth of England that was known internationally – in this case, the English butler.” “Jeeves was a big influence.” This is a necessary genuflection. No literary butler can ever quite escape the … Salman Rushdie: Rereading The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroRead more
