/lit/ - Literature

>>13305590
The Unconsoled is based.
>>13308244
Put me in the screencap

i never practiced hard enough and eventually limped out of my degree with a 2 :2 and never played my instrument again after my parents dropped thousands of pounds on a musical education for me, sending me to a specialist music school and then paying for me to afford to be at one of the major music colleges (all of which i begged them for; they never forced me, they were just supportive and good)

anyone read this?

550 pp seems like quite a bit of an investment...

critical reception seems very confused:

>The Unconsoled was described as a "sprawling, almost indecipherable 500-page work"[1] that "left readers and reviewers baffled".[2] It received strong negative reviews with a few positive ones. Literary critic James Wood said that the novel had "invented its own category of badness". However, a 2006 poll of various literary critics voted the novel as the third "best British, Irish, or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005",[3] tied with Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Ian McEwan's Atonement, and Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower. John Carey, book critic for the Sunday Times, also placed the novel on his list of the 20th century's 50 most enjoyable books, later published as Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books. It has come to be generally regarded as one of Ishiguro’s best works.[4]