"A Village After Dark" by Kazuo Ishiguro

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

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🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this special quarantine edition, Jacke takes a brief look at the life and works of Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and his short story, "A Village After Dark." Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. Music Credits: “Onion Capers” and "Magistar" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello.
0:11.0	It's been said that there are really only two stories in literature. A person goes on a journey and a
0:17.0	stranger comes to town, which is actually just a person goes on a journey told from a different
0:22.2	point of view.
0:23.6	Kazu Rose stripped down short story, a village after dark combines these two, preserving the
0:30.3	essential mysteries of both. A man arrives in a village. He's known it
0:35.0	before years ago when he spoke to the people and roused them to his cause. What was
0:41.4	that cause? Who was that man? How will they treat him now? And what powers
0:46.0	will he exert over them? And the youth who never knew him? What does any of this mean? What does it mean?
0:53.0	it represent?
0:55.0	How does it speak to us if it does?
0:58.5	We might live in a buzzing metropolis or on a lonely mountaintop retreat. We might be buried in some basement apartment or living alone in a thousand acres of forest shirtless and howling.
1:10.0	It doesn't matter. When we enter this world of this brief short story, we're all in a village.
1:17.0	We're all in a village and darkness is descending.
1:22.0	Kazuo Ishiguro and is and darkness is descending.
1:54.0	Kazuo Isiguro in his short story of Village After Dark, today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go. Welcome to the podcast. I'm Jack Wilson, your host, another special quarantine edition. We'll have a great short story for you as we've been doing on these Thursdays during the shutdown, the shutdown, the lockdown, the lockdown, whatever it's called.
2:02.0	We are inside looking out the windows at our
2:05.5	spring as it fades into memory. A time for the earth to breathe. Have you seen
2:11.2	those images? Our planet with less human activity without smog,
2:16.1	without so many cars flying around. Things look kind of nice out there.
2:20.0	It shames me to say it because I am a person and I love people guys I really love people I'm a person hugger more than a tree hugger
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