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Brief Biography
Brief Biography
1989 Remains of the Day (wins Booker prize)
1992 Daughter Naomi born
1992 Remains of the Day film is
nominated for 8 Oscars
1995 OBE for service to literature
2000 2 Screenplays The Saddest Music in
the World & The white Countess
2005 Never Let Me Go
Literary Influences
Anton Chekhov
Literary Influences
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literary Influences
Franz Kafka
Literary Influences
Henry James
Literary Influences
Samuel Beckett
Narrative Methods
Anticipative devices
Flashbacks & non-linearity
A balance between Homo-diegetic narration
(part of the story) and Extra-diegetic
narration (superior to the story)
Self consciously flawed recall
Direct and personal engagement with the
reader