The Remains of the Day
A butler at a great English house takes a week's motoring holiday in the summer of 1956 to call on the former housekeeper, and turns over thirty years of service to a master who spent the 1930s working for appeasement. His account of his own dignity keeps stepping around what that service cost him and what he declined to see. The English country house read as a machine for converting private feeling into duty.
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- reworks ↑ An Artist of the Floating World
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