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Carregando... I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (1996)de Young-ha Kim
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This novella came to my attention on a random list that I found on the net somewhere. I'm not sure if I still have the list and I can't recall what website I found it on. Anyway, I decided to read it next as I fancied something a little off the wall and it also means I get to tick another country off the list. This book was a gift from someone and I sometimes wonder what they think about my mental state when I read books like this. It's a bit tricky to review the book as the story is pretty strange and in places nasty. Sometimes the nastiness in a book really feels like it is there for effect only but I thought it worked well here. It's not over done but it does catch the attention and I found myself re-reading a few bits to make sure I read what I thought I had. I also really liked the concept of a person who moves from place to place finding and helping people who wish to commit suicide. It's a delightfully dark idea and something which really appeals to my mind. Personally, I would have preferred a bit more plot but that probably would have spoiled the book. A warped but interesting book. Ohh, and the cover is gorgeous, it would be an incredible tattoo but would require one hell of an artist to make it work. Such is a shame. This undernourished story is intriguing, though only a germ of a novel. Given my effusive lust for Korean cinema, I was excited to find Young-Ha Kim's debut on a remainder table for two dollars. What resulted is actually more akin to a screenplay than any plumbing of the darkened corridors of the mind. The suicide assistant would be a perfect role for Lee Byung-hun: shit, he's played variations on the role a number of times. That said, this clumsy collision of art, death and ennui didn't move me. Ruminating on this a for a spell, I still love the section abroad much more than the snowstorm scene. Being dulled by vehicular speed, sex and stimulus, the characters look for the elegant departure. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same woman--Se-yeon--who tears at both of them as they all try desperately to find real connection in an atomized world. A spectral, nameless narrator haunts the edges of their lives as he tells of his work helping the lost and hurting find escape through suicide. Dreamlike and beautiful, the South Korea brought forth in this novel is cinematic in its urgency and its reflection of contemporary life everywhere--far beyond the boundaries of the Korean peninsula. Recalling the emotional tension of Milan Kundera and the existential anguish of Bret Easton Ellis, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself achieves its author's greatest wish--to show Korean literature as part of an international tradition. Young-ha Kim is a young master, the leading literary voice of his generation. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)895.734Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Korean Korean fiction 1945–2000Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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Characters: 8.5
Setting: 6
Prose: 7.5
Tags: Suicide, suicide assistance, brotherhood, women, love, swinging ( )