Ponos, poslanstvo, zgodovinske okoliščine Darlington Halla, očetova smrt, zadrgnjena gospodična Kenton - vsi ti sloji se skozi počasi pronicajočo pripoved izčistijo v ganljivo sporočilo, ki je že skorajda klic na pomoč, na katerega se, absurdno, ni primerno odzvati. Peter Beech v Guardianu:
We get a picture of a man trying desperately to keep a lid on his emotions – and what a complete picture it is. The Remains of the Day does that most wonderful thing a work of literature can do: it makes you feel you hold a human life in your hands. When you reach the end, it really does seem as if you’ve lost a friend – a laughably pompous, party-hat-refusing, stick-in-the-mud friend, but a good friend nonetheless. You want to give him a hug, except he’d be outraged.Brezčasna mojstrovina.
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