As demonstrated in most of his earlier novels, Ishiguro tends to present his protagonists as artist or someone who has been infatuated with the functions of art. In Nocturnes, Ishiguro has chosen different settings such as Europe and America for the narratives entangling among different places. Just like what the narrator Janeck confesses, as a foreigner living in Venice he has always been regarded as one of the gypsies.
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