![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His first two novels, “ A Pale View of Hills” and “ An Artist of the Floating World,” both had as their subject Japan, the country from which he moved to England when he was 5. “A painting is not a picture of an experience,” the artist Mark Rothko once said, “it’s the experience.” Ishiguro’s books are the experience. This is the subject of Kazuo Ishiguro’s moving and beautiful new novel, “ Klara and the Sun.” Many novelists have grappled with it, but Ishiguro is not many other novelists. And we are an error-prone bunch, mercurial, confusing, not notably peaceable. The first machines with affect and consciousness will be confronted with an enormous record of their ancestry, but only humans upon whom to model their behavior. How will computers remember this time? Assuming they achieve consciousness in some form - what’s usually called the singularity - then we are currently inhabiting their prehistory. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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