1994年2月14日,美国《时代》周刊在“作家栏”中登载了题为《记忆收藏家》的文章,评介了目前在英语文坛颇为惹人注目的日裔英国作家石黑一雄。文章认为石黑一雄的小说没有性描写,没有暴力,几乎也没有表面的戏剧性。作品大都是流落在异国他乡者的叙述,这些漂泊者均被一种莫名的孤独或错位的情 On February 14, 1994, Time magazine of the United States published an article titled “Memory Collectors” in the “Writers Bar” and commented on Shi Hei, a Japanese-British writer who is currently quite compelling in the English literary world A male. The article holds that Ishiguro’s novel has no sexual description, no violence and almost no apparent drama. Most of the works are narrated by those who are strangers and strangers in other countries. These wanderers are all turned on by an inexplicable loneliness or dislocation