Convalescence

by Kang Han

Modern Korean Literature (024)

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Han Kang's stories depict people living in pain. Han emphasizes not the cause of the pain or the process of healing but the pain itself. Characters in Han's stories feel pain not because they have experienced a uniquely unhappy event. Unable to successfully adapt to their everyday lives, they barely manage to live. It is as if living itself is pain to them. As if to say that our daily lives, the numerable socially accepted ideas that support those lives, and, furthermore, the condition of show more being human itself constitute an unbearable violence. Han's characters complain about their vivid, painful sensations and navigate their lives with a refined fortitude. -- From back cover. show less

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Il secondo racconto sicuramente molto più bello del primo, anche se mi ricorda schifosamente uno di Daphne Du Maurier, che devo assolutamente rileggere.
Non so dare una valutazione, perché il secondo racconto è molto bello, il primo mi ha lasciato più tiepida e il tutto mi sembra fuffa di marketing editoriale. Non a caso, non mi pare che esistano tante altre edizioni nel mondo con questi due racconti.

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Convalescence

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
895.735Literature & rhetoricAsian LiteratureLiteratures of East and Southeast AsiaKoreanKorean fiction2000–
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PL992.26Language and LiteratureLanguages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaLanguages of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaKorean language and literatureKorean literatureIndividual authors and works

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