Published in 2009, Nocturnes is Kazuo Ishiguro’s seventh work and his only book of stories to date. Not a collection of already published material, Nocturnes comprises, as the subtitle suggests, Five Stories of Music and Nightfall. Written as a unified narrative, the book is a “cycle of interlinked short stories” (Groes), all narrated in the first person by male characters of similar temperament who differ in age and nationality. Ishiguro considers his approach towards the composition of Nocturnes to be that of a novelist: in a Guardian interview Ishiguro describes it as “ a fictional book that happens to be divided into five movements” (qtd in Aitkenhead).
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Citation: Logotheti, Anastasia. "Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 June 2018 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=26521, accessed 25 November 2024.]
