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What Writers Can Take Away From the Bible

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Article
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/min-jin-lee-by-heart/548810/
Journal
the atlantic
Issued Date
December 20, 2017
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
Washington D.C.
Book
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Writer
Lee Min Jin

About the Author

  • Lee Min Jin
  • Birth : 1968 ~ -
  • Occupation : Writer
  • First Name : Min Jin
  • Family Name : Lee
  • Korean Name : 이민진
  • ISNI : 0000000047748236
  • Works : 41
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  • English(English)

For Min Jin Lee, the author of Pachinko, writing a novel is a nearly god-like act of creation, a way to preside over a small universe that authors fashion in the image of their beliefs. In a conversation for this series, she explained why her commitment to third-person “omniscient” narration is not just an aesthetic choice, but also an ethical one: That mode’s flexibility lets her build a functioning, self-contained world, one that’s governed by an overarching moral physics.

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