Did Kafka imagine that his artistic method could be carried to its logical conclusion? Perhaps the best English-language writer of the present time, winner of numerous literary awards, Kazuo Ishiguro, in his novel The Inconsolable, made Kafkaesque settings the backdrop for depicting the personality of an artist who is unable to separate his private and social life. It is both a farce and a nightmare, a study of the cruelty inherent in society as a whole and an individual family, and all this against the backdrop of a fictional city, on the edge of reality... “The Inconsolable” is the most complex and perhaps the best novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, filled with numerous literary and musical allusions .