'It would be too easy to call what Ishiguro is undertaking "fantasy" or "magical realism." Critics will summon such phrases to describe this book, but they would be wrong to do so. Such facile labels - suggesting that the author is relying on literary devices pulled from old bags of tricks - have no meaning here. Instead, what we are given in The Buried Giant has the clear ring of legend, original and humane as anything Ishiguro has written.' (Marie Arana, Washington Post, 25 February)
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'It would be too easy to call what Ishiguro is undertaking "fantasy" or "magical realism." Critics will summon such phrases to describe this book, but they would be wrong to do so. Such facile labels - suggesting that the author is relying on literary devices pulled from old bags of tricks - have no meaning here. Instead, what we are given in The Buried Giant has the clear ring of legend, original and humane as anything Ishiguro has written.' (Marie Arana, Washington Post, 25 February)
Heigh ho.
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I'm so confused.
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