I just finished Vegetarian. It was alright. It wasn't feminist in western kind, but like anti-confucian and as such feminist. If women were reading this over rape porn then that would be alright, but they are not.Don't see why there was any outrage over the nobel prize, when the nobel prize for literature is just political award.
Who Blu?
Byung-chul Han transitioned?
>>24777544No, I've read it in my first language, not in language, but from the translator¨s commentary I've understood that the original english translation sucked, becouse the narcissistic british white bitch tried to make it her own book. That's "peak irony" with Vegetarian as it is about self-determination / yearning for freedom from control of other.
>>24777473Normies think that this book is feminist. It is on a shallow level, but mostly, it's actually antinatalist. Han Kang is based.
I have no idea. Why did they choose her instead of Houllebecq?
>>24777637Apart from the obvious (she is non-white woman from patriarchal society), I would say she deserves it becouse the whole translation shenaningans were a remarkable / unique thing to happen - low quality translation / mistranslation leads to popularity of an author outside her own country becouse it dumbs down the book and turns it into "pop". Thus she becomes popular in her home country and the west receives actual high-quality translation and sees the book is even better.Another reason why she deserves the prize is as recognition. Upon becoming famous Kang became controversial in Korea and hated - becouse she showed Korean society in different light than kdramas and kpop, she showed the real shit - husband caring about her wife's mental health only in context of "My boss will think badly of me, becouse my wife has mental issues," a world where marital rape and killing pets for misbehavior is considered completely normal and unremarkable yet the country/society acts as if it's liberal democratic egalitarian state, WITHOUT becoming preachy feminist crap. South Korean propaganda machine HATES her for that - were it not for the "accidental" translation, she would never be allowed to be heard of in the west (as South Korean government finances translations of Korean literature to another languages - her books would never receive the funds). Nobel Prize for literature has long been mostly political prize, a way to promote authors who say unpopular truths. In a way it's similar to Boris Pasternak, although Kang would never face "hard" oppression for her books (nobody will throw her pregnant wife down the stairs so many times until she miscarries).
>>24777846Yawn.
>>24777473I only read Human Acts and I actually liked it quite a lot. It's obvious the nobel prize was politically motivated but nevertheless I thought it was a very good book.
>>24778010I will read that in near future. For some reason 'Human Acts' were translated as 'Where the Grass Grows' in my language.
>>24777846>WITHOUT becoming preachy feminist crap.Why do you lie to our faces like this? You described feminist points and then say it's not feminist. You're cooked. Or you've internalized feminism so hard that you don't even see it anymore.Keep in mind that you're talking about a society where slavery of men (conscription) is completely normal.
>>24777473I have it on good authority that she sucked her way to the top. Powerful suction, too. Not just a quickie, lickie, spitty type. Monstrous way with her lips and cheeks. And tongue. God, the tongue. It is forked, like a snake. She puts one and then the other fork into your third eye and alternates like that, and draws the fork up the shaft and ahh! You explode into that warm, gooey mouth, replete with Korean spit, which is thicker than American spit on account of their diet.I know thirteen men, editors, publishers, titans of industry, whose souls now reside within the tummy of one Han "Fang" Kang. My favourite is the story of the Random House bigwig who, after a few lines of coke, remembers staring up at the ceiling fan of his motel room and observing in the reflection of a single blade the mighty Fang Kang bobbing and heaving on his five-inch wonder.
>>24777846She's also controversial in KKKorea because her other book Human Acts was specifically about 1987 Gwangju uprising and the subsequent butchering of protesters by the coup army. And that got the right wanger dicklets triggered.
>>24777473Yeah, I think that's about right. It's a limited book, but not uninteresting. The White Book is very slight, but quite nicely done. A sort of inoffensive "wrong but not infuriatingly wrong" pick for the N comittee
>caring about nobel prizes after obama got one as a participation trophy>caring about 21st century literature
>>24777846>killing pets for misbehaviorwtf I love the worst Korea now? People should not have dogs if they'll keep barking whenever left alone.
>>24779664>>caring about 21st century literaturewanting to live in a culturally dead society
>>24778029I always insist that just because something is "normal" or "traditional" doesn't always meant its "right"
>>24777846Pasternak wasn’t trying to do anything political in the novel though, he just sets it during the Russian Revolution.
>>24779947Not only did he display the Russian Revolution through not-idealised lenses, the book puts love of two individuals above ideology¨/ masses / system. And all that written during 1950s and state-ordained 'social realism' in literature. That was as political and politically controversial as one could get in soviet union...
>>24778029>Or you've internalized feminism so hard that you don't even see it anymore.what are you a bro? Come on sister, just forget... sleep and forget... you no longer remember life before 2008... it was always this way
>>24777846Good post
>>24777611>Korean highest /lit/ is even anti-birthrate.Pottery
>>24780124Yes, anti-natalism is based. have you noticed it is all the highest IQ countries that have low birthrates? >b-but muh propagation of genesretard ideology
>>24780129In Vegetarian the last POV character does not commit suicide ONLY becouse of her children. It's not anti-natalist, it's more about 'self-determination', eg. every individual having control over their own lives and fates. That's something that is missing in neo-confucian based societies, where people stop being themselves and become what society wants them to be. Practical example: in Korea people undergo insane plastic surgeries to all look unnaturally the same, to have different kind of eyelids - it's so normalized that parents buy their daughters plastic surgeries as gift. But normal parents are supposed to consider their children beautiful without surgery, becouse the children are their progeny.
