It was during what I myself came to consider the beginning of my “literary” phase that I first came upon Kazuo Ishiguro. Murakami does not boast any of the literary prowess that Ishiguro does, being on-the-nose in true Japanese style. Where Murakami revels in known feelings and tight endings, Ishiguro is immersed in the imperfection of memory. His stories boast incomplete characters, characters which constantly fail to achieve closure, creating a distance between themselves and us. And this insurmountable distance between two people can be found in the words of Ishiguro.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 07, 2017 16:07 UTC