Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, was published by Portobello Books in 2015. Human Acts was published by Portobello books in 2016. She currently teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.
发表于2024-12-22
The Vegetarian 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: ManBookerPrize korea 韩国文学 小说 韩国 Dark, twisted fiction
Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more ‘plant-like’ existence, commits a shocking act of subversion. As her rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, Yeong-hye spirals further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming – impossibly, ecstatically – a tree. Fraught, disturbing, and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire, and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.
第一次读韩国小说,读的是英文版的。本以为是荒诞派在写一个人选择成为素食主义,而故事慢慢在最后全部解开,素食主义只是女主选择对生活的一种抗衡方式,周围人的不理解则是传统的一种肉食主义的强势看法,也是家庭暴力和从小所收到阴影的一种映射。女主是妹妹,选择了内心的拒绝和对抗,被他人认作精神失常,而同样饱受摧残的姐姐却在粉饰曾经的经历仿佛在经营一段完美的婚姻,但在这种悲剧也映射到了她的人生和婚姻,她的丈夫不管家庭和孩子在玩艺术,最后为了一己私欲而释放欲望。人性的欲望在这里用素食和肉食进行映射,家庭暴力和伦理道德的对抗,在这里体现的淋漓尽致,慢慢展开来,一点点拉开帷幕的方式,很吸引人。
评分故事分成三段,最喜欢的是从Yeong-hye姐姐的角度来写的最后一段。以爱之名的压迫和残暴,大概真的是人性里最不人性的东西
评分原生家庭对孩子成长的影响。童年生活在父亲暴力阴影下的两姐妹,成年后的姐姐以自我牺牲的精神将生活和工作掌握的井井有条,而妹妹是个普通的家庭主妇。但看似成熟强大的姐姐缩在现实生活的龟壳中逃避内心的恐惧。反倒是一直隐忍的妹妹幻想自己是一颗有水就能活的树绝望的摆脱了一切甚至生命。
评分man booker prize?韩国伦理片的既视感而已吧。
评分首先,翻译真的太重要了,直接影响阅读质量… 对韩国文学一直有种似懂非懂的感觉可能是语言表达方式的关系… 还是好好背单词回来看原版吧。书本身想表达的那种韩式反抗 女性地位 子女的顺从在西方世界是颠覆性的 所以大奖抱着也没什么奇特 在亚洲国家的话估计早已见怪不怪。试想春节走亲访友 你瘦的皮包骨 然后对着亲戚说 我是绝对素食主义者 亲戚不得说你个神经病… 然后大鱼大肉伺候?!
The Vegetarian 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书