Watchmen and Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant have more in common than you might think.
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2015 Man Booker winner Marlon James embraces epic fantasy with a non-conforming, lightning-paced tale that up-ends every expectation.
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In honor of Ishiguro's Nobel lecture last night, we revisit our woolly musings on 2015's The Buried Giant.
Read moreDisinterring the Buried Giant: More Thoughts on Ishiguro's Latest
"Shall we take a funny one?"
More speculations on The Buried Giant and its woolly layers, from your fearless adventurers at Fiction Unbound.
Read more"The Buried Giant": A Quest to Remember
Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel, The Buried Giant, follows an elderly Briton couple, Axl and Beatrice, as they travel through a vaguely Arthurian landscape of ogres, pixies, and a mist that makes everyone forget—which, given the generations of bloodshed between Britons and Saxons, may not be such a bad thing. Unbound Writers Lisa Mahoney, Theodore McCombs, CS Peterson, and Mark Springer debate whether the novel is, you know, good.
Read moreIshiguro and Le Guin: the Genre Gendarmes and Gender
Ursula K. Le Guin calls out Kazuo Ishiguro's genre anxiety around his just-released novel, The Buried Giant--which is #TotallyNotFantasy
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