Han Kang. Ever heard of her? Is she worth the hype or just a pretty face?
>>25246933...Pretty face?
The Vegetarian is overrated but her other books are damn good
Dogshit. Nobody will ever post excerpts or speak fondly of details because such instances expose her shyte work. Worthless as that negro shuck and jiver or that jewish shuck and jiver they gave it to.
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>>25246999Which part of Human Acts did you enjoy the most? For me it was the one about the ex-prisoner who once was idealistic revolutionary now living meaningless shitty life with PTSD and alcoholism. That part somehow reminded me of We Children from Bahnhof Zoo but it was even more dreadful.
Pretty impressive that the translator only learned Korean two years before embarking on the translation and that was apparently enough for the Nobel committee to give Kang a nobel, since no one who matters in the “award committees” has ever read her in Korean
>>25247043Stop coping and seething.
>>25247055>Because he was pale, with dark shadows around his eyes that made him look like he belonged in a hospital.Waldun-tier “proses”
>>25246999Reminder that one of the protags of The Vegetarian has a white boyfriend.
>>25247048Chapters 2 and 4, the prisoner chapter you mentioned, were my favorites. But I also really enjoyed the last two chapters, ending the book with the perspectives of those two people was an interesting choice. The tone of that book is ultra-precise in how it makes you feel the funereal style of mourning that she was going for.
>>25247048>the ex-prisoner who once was idealistic revolutionary now living meaningless shitty life with PTSD and alcoholismSounds like generic, cliched YA slop>>25247055Lmao this is horrendous. It really does read like ya slop, too.
>>25247055>those cold, empty eyes, utterly devoid of anythingBit redundant
>>25247061Might partially explain the popularity of that book then kek.
>25247063nice spacing
>>25247063>Sounds like generic, cliched YA slopWhat?
>>25247082It's fucking corny, sis. And worst of all it's insincere and inauthentic. Pows and soldiers and whatnot do write autobiographies sometimes. You should compare and contrast, sometime.
>>25247092you want to sound smart so bad lmao
>>25247094So badly**, slopsister
>>25247092Nigga what do soldiers and pows have to do with anything? The revolutionaries were not soldiers. And how is it insincere when she literally lived through the uprising, meanwhile you are fucking dumbass retard with 0 life experience and complain about insincerity.
Is the Rooney-Ferrante troon now on to spamming Han Kang slop?
>>25247108>wat solja boy haf do wit anyting?Oh so these are revolutionaries in the larping self-important college student sense, okay sister, i think i get it now.>She rive fru uprisinkWomen don't "live through" anything they're unthinking, unfeeling hylics who lazily respond to stimuli like paramecium.Worst koreans deserve the label.
>>25247100you want it SO bad kwab
>>25247108she didn't live through the uprising, her family moved out of gwanju 4 months before it took place. she grew up in a household that talked about it often and owned many books/articles about it, but that's not "literally living through" anything
>>25247131>kwab>>>/pw/
>>25247055Its not awful. But I find this kind of literature so frustrating because it is so godamn repetitive. War bad. Victims of war good. I enjoyed Eli Wiesel's Night the first time I read it. But international literature awards just refuse to move on to any other exploration of the human experience. And if it's not war, it's the same depiction of depression (the only mental illness according to "esteemed" literature) or racial oppression in America (somehow likened to oppression in backwater countries that lack the terminology to even describe how oppression works). I read Vonnegut's Mother Night last year and it knocked me fucking over. War and responsibility as this messy, comical thing. I wish the Nobel would take authors with actual voice, not self-seriousness. Perhaps it's the consequence of making awards for literature that cannot consider the quality of prose due to translation--you lose the focus on the parts of reading and writing that actually matter.
>>25247135interesting resonance, tho: In the snippet above, the POW talks much more about things he heard about than things he lived through personally
>>25247158she read a massive book of survivors' anecdotes and testimonies when doing research for the book, it must have come from that
>>25247156I can't tell if you've read the book, your comment is conveniently ambiguous in that regard, but I don't see how anyone could read Human Acts and only come away from it with a "war is le bad" takeaway. It's not a didactic book. The structure and the characters are done in a way to avoid those kind of basic, obvious perspectives. Obviously you can infer Kang thinks war is le bad, but that's not what the book is really doing. This is like reading Tolstoy and only walking away thinking "peace is LE GOOD".
>>25247173From the excerpt posted, Kang doesn't appear to be doing anything. Your own willful mind is doing all her heavy lifting.
>>25247216>I haven't read the bookI accept (You)r concession.
>>25247240>you have to physically chew this shit before you can say you don't like itNah
>I still concede
>>25247063>Sounds like generic, cliched YA slopthis is so fucking stupid. how many YA books do you think there are about failed revolutionaries that are alcoholic and depressed?
>>25247156The book is not about war, it's about long-term effects of brutal repression of the Gwangju uprising - the uprising where one South Korean town protested for better working rights and the South Korean dictator sent in army that consisted of Vietnam vets (specifically the South Korean crimes against humanity battalions) who just started killing, imprisoning and torturing people in the town no matter if they were revolutionaries or not. It's about how this repression completely destroyed the people of the town but nobody cares anymore - becouse it's been so long ago and becouse the government censored the shit out of it all.All the characters in the book are real people, everything that's described in the book actually happened.>>25247158>>25247170IIRC that's what ties the book or at least parts of it together? That all the POVs are connected to someone doing research on the Gwangju Uprising and interviewing the victims, or like the victims all visited the same researcher or the POVs are close to someone who visited him.
>1st person post-mortem narration
>>25247412he's a mindless directionbrain using his newest buzzwords like a toddler waving a rattle, ignore him
>>25247412Looks like plenty. It's a corny cliche. It's trope oriented fiction, i don't know why anybody considers it literary>what if i was... le wrongBrava, zipperhead>i thought it would all work out when i was young... now i know... the best laid plans... of mice, and men... often go... vegetarianBrava!https://www.google.com/search?q=list+me+the+most+recent+young+adult+literature+about+a+soldier%2C+warrior%2C+or+ideologue+who+questions+or+regrets+his+past&sca_esv=cc26d5f28dfddab8&biw=360&bih=560&ei=5Qf1abLjDp7i5NoPo7-FmQw&oq=list+me+the+most+recent+young+adult+literature+about+a+soldier%2C+warrior%2C+or+ideologue+who+questions+or+regrets+his+past&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIndsaXN0IG1lIHRoZSBtb3N0IHJlY2VudCB5b3VuZyBhZHVsdCBsaXRlcmF0dXJlIGFib3V0IGEgc29sZGllciwgd2Fycmlvciwgb3IgaWRlb2xvZ3VlIHdobyBxdWVzdGlvbnMgb3IgcmVncmV0cyBoaXMgcGFzdEiUsgRQnQtY5KMEcBR4AJABBZgBrQigAe6WAaoBETY0LjM1LjQuMi4yLjMuNS4xuAEDyAEA-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_LA7IHDjMuNDYuMi41LjMuMi4xuAeDZMIHDDItMTEuNC40NC4xNMgH8BCACAA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp
>>25247532Can you stop posting cringe, faggot? None of that does relate to Human Acts at all. You are seething about book you have not read and know nothing about in such a way that makes one question if you even read books - which makes you just another of resident /pol/tard tourists. You are trying to look clever too hard.
>>25247435>nobody cares anymoreNobody cares because they deserved it
>>25247541Listen, pal, she's not the first person to write about le war, which is one matter, but frankly inconsequential. Her worst crime is she doesn't write about it well.>All the bodies were piled on top of each other... it wasn't like a bunch of bodies, it was like one big scary thing made out of bodies, no longer individualYeah, okay, i get it, dehumanization, boy, that's really clever, very nice, thanks, come collect your reward.This shit is vapid. It almost reads like garth marenghi it's that ridiculous.
>>25247565Why do you discuss about a book you have not read? Are you truly this dumb? And why do you think anyone takes you seriously?
>>25247576>Why do you discuss about a book you have not read?One of life's many mysteries, like why you come to an english language forum despite being esl. Oh well, I guess that's the point of roastie bait threads. The catalogue is full of them.
>dodges the question again
she's asian. she's female. she could be the literal greatest writer to ever live and she'd still be hated by /lit/cels
>>25246933She doesn't have these cannons.
>>25249777checked
Wtf rescued this garbage nobody cares about from page 10? Her writing has been posted and everybody not trolling has already agreed it sucks
>>25247412The Hunger Games, unironically
>>25250066learn to sage then, retard
