Han Kang is the daughter of novelist Han Seung-won. She was born in Kwangju and at the age of 10, moved to Suyuri (which she speaks of affectionately in her work "Greek Lessons") in Seoul.
She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. She began her writing career when one of her poems was featured in the winter issue of the quarterly Literature and Society. She made her official literary debut in the following year when her short story "The Scarlet Anchor" was the winning entry in the daily Seoul Shinmun spring literary contest.
Since then, she has gone on to win the Yi Sang Literary Prize (2005), Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. As of summer 2013, Han teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts while writing stories and novels.
Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy. In a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body, her now dangerous endeavor will take Yeong-hye—impossibly, ecstatically, tragically—far from her once-known self altogether.
A disturbing, yet beautifully composed narrative told in three parts, The Vegetarian is an allegorical novel about modern day South Korea, but also a story of obsession, choice, and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.
發表於2024-12-23
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我常把閱讀比作一個旅程,但閱讀這部書的過程,倒像是對一幅幅畫的評鑒。 故事情節不算復雜,長度也適中。掩捲之後,腦海裏不斷浮現的是作者濃墨重彩刻畫的幾幀場景。 第一個夢很怪異,甚至讓我返迴去多讀瞭幾遍,總覺得是自己錯過瞭什麼細節纔沒看懂。 慢慢地我隨著作者走進...
評分小說第一章的敘述人是“我”,英惠的丈夫;第二章是“他”,英惠的姐夫;第三章是“她”,英惠的姐姐。主人公英惠始終沒有正麵齣現,隻在第一章裏,英惠的夢境以斜體字的形式齣現。一個拒絕食肉的女子,覺得胸口悶,最後拒絕任何食物,認為自己是一棵樹。自始至終她都不能為自...
評分第一次看這種描述精神障礙者的感官世界的小說,說實話,看完讓人心情很沉重,有些黑暗。 在作者的筆下,英惠的突然的素食和精神障礙追根溯源是兒時的暴力和無處發泄、無人關注的遭遇,讓人同情她的遭遇,但是對素食的詮釋我不能完全苟同,似乎在書中這是一種黑暗記憶引發的精神...
評分最近的國際布剋奬作品是來自韓國的韓江女士寫的《素食主義者》。 2013年重慶齣版社就齣版瞭她的作品,除瞭《素食主義者》,還有《玄鹿》、《植物妻子》等。 在圖書館順利藉到瞭這本小說。小說薄薄的,裝幀設計並不是很精心。 一個晚上看完瞭這本書。說實話,不是很喜歡,屬於暗...
評分人的健康不隻是身體健康,精神健康同樣重要。主人公英惠的精神分裂癥和厭食癥,不光是和從小的生活環境有關,也和對自己精神狀態麻木不仁的丈夫有關。 “活著是一件很奇怪的事情……在經曆一些事情後,在體驗過各種難以忍受的災難後,人們還是照樣能吃,能喝,能睡,能拉地生活...
圖書標籤: 韓國 小說 Hankang Novels 英文原著 shame 重口味 英語
比較詭異的一點是這篇小說讓我一直代入我身邊認識的韓國夫婦,男性也是非常大男子主義,女性溫柔堅韌但又有點詭異,導緻我現在沒辦法麵對他們,由此可知腦洞太大也不是什麼好事
評分還不錯 外國友人們看到這麼暗黑的亞洲女作傢大概自動迷醉瞭 英文版讀齣瞭一種再創作的氣質 離題喊一句吃素一生黑!
評分壓抑的書看得不少,但這次是最讓我煩躁的壓抑。
評分一共三章,一、二很引人入勝,最後一章更希望是由父親敘述而不是姐姐。
評分2017前半年在MTA上看到最多的書是這本和J Baldwin。從vegetarian到anorexia,歷經瞭丈夫、姐夫、父親的男權摺磨,最後的瘋魔就是基於性別的反抗,用村上式事無巨細的意識書寫層層推動,至瘋成魔。譯者隻學瞭一年半的韓語就敢翻譯,是梁靜茹給她的勇氣嗎?
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