In an interview in 1998, Jeff Bezos - founder and CEO of Amazon, also the richest man in the world - said he didn't think it was possible to write a perfect novel until he read "The Remains of the Day ?(in English? Remaining Day ?) by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro.
?If you read 'The Remains of the Day', which is one of my favorite books, you start to think that 'I spent ten hours living a parallel life and learned something about life and penance. It's something you can't do by reading blogs. " - said Bezos.
Bezos' biography, written by American journalist Brad Stone "The Everything Store", states that the book by the Japanese-born Japanese author is one of the books that influenced Bezos's decision to found Amazon. However, ex-wife MacKenzie has said that "Jeff read the book a year after it was founded."
"The Remaining Day" is one of those books that Bezos encourages employees to read.
Ishiguro has been widely criticized as a mixture of Jane Austen, Franc Kafka and Marcel Proust.
"He is very interested in understanding the past, but he is not a Prussian writer, he does not attempt to undo the past, he explores what you have to forget to survive in the first place as an individual or as a society," the secretary said. of the Nobel Academy in 2017, when Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
