The Remains of the Day - Bantering!

My short audio on the issue of bantering in the novel, The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro.

For Stevens bantering is a serious business. With his private self subsumed into his professional role as a butler, everything becomes a function of service - even the spontaneous conversational oil of bantering. Stevens sees it as another task to be carried out, but is bantering a craft that can be learned?

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