![]() Much of it, I could see, was covered with fungus." The elasticity of the subconscious is also the novel's elasticity – it is more than 500 pages long – and likewise the novel's procedures are those of its adopted system of Freudian values. "I stared through the spiderweb cracks into the rear seat where I had once spent so many contented hours. In a field outside the city where, through labyrinthine causes, he finds himself, he comes across the dilapidated wreck of his old childhood family car. ![]() ![]() The novel is written in the form of an extended anxiety dream: manifold impediments spring up to delay his arrival at the concert hall at one point he realises he hasn't practised the pieces he intends to play. I n Kazuo Ishiguro's 1995 novel The Unconsoled, Ryder, a pianist, is due to give an important concert in a foreign city. ![]()
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