Heroic BSoD: The closest Ono comes to this is during the meeting between Noriko's and her suitor's families. An Artist of the Floating World is a sensual and profoundly convincing portrait of the artist as an aging man. µ Book Club Spring 2012 Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World, Vintage, 1986 Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1956) writes from the perspective of an aging Japanese artist caught in a world of shifting valuesthe rigid formalities of Imperial Japan before World War II, and the democratic attitudes that prevail in postwar Nagasaki.Driven to Suicide: Averted, but heavily implied as one way for Ono to escape the dishonor of his past.It was published in 1986 and shortlisted the same year for the Booker. Dirty Coward: Ono regards the Tortoise as this, because he never took the kinds of "risks" that Ono did. An Artist of the Floating World is a novel by British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro.Greatly suffers (or profits?) from Unreliable Narrator, to the point that this Trope is Lampshaded by Ono himself multiple times. And while Ono is rarely portrayed sympathetically, it seems that he has lost a great deal due to the war.The precise nature of Ono's past is only revealed through a series of reminiscences, framed by the efforts of his youngest daughter, Noriko, to find a husband. Set in Japan during the aftermath of World War II, the book follows the life of Ono, a prideful artist who seems incapable of changing his ways. An Artist of the Floating World is a novel by Japanese-born English writer Kazuo Ishiguro.
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