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Kniha: The Vegetarian
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| Nakladatelství: | » Granta Books |
| Médium / forma: | Tištěná kniha |
| Počet stran: | 183 |
| Rozměr: | 200,0x130,0x15,0 mm |
| Vydání: | Paperback edition |
| Spolupracovali: | translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith |
| Skupina třídění: | Korejská literatura |
| Hmotnost: | 0,143kg |
| Jazyk: | anglicky |
| Vazba: | Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá |
| Téma: | korejská literatura, ženy, vegetariánství, sebezdokonalování, seberealizace, psychologické aspekty, manželská krize, cizojazyčné texty, anglické texty |
| EAN: | 9781846276033 |
Vyprávění korejské autorky rozdělené do tří novel je alegorickým pojednáním o obsesi, změně a současném životě v Jižní Koreji, kde i rozhodnutí stát se vegetariánkou může přinést společenské reakce.
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, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling 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.An unsettling novel in 3 acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism. A cult bestseller in South Korea, translated by Deborah Smith. (a novel)
