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Barnes, David

David Barnes is an academic and has written on such diverse subjects as hip-hop lyrics, Victorian architecture and Italian fascism.

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A Tourist in Search of Home

David Barnes on Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled

Perhaps it was the cover that first attracted me to the book. It showed a headless man in a suit and tie, with a vast hinterland of minor characters stretching out to the edges. Though I didn’t know it at the time, this image captures perfectly the concerns of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Unconsoled. Ryder, its protagonist, is both no man and everyman; as the quintessential modern character, he is empty as we are all empty.

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