&apos;Your Utopia&apos; considers surveillance and the perils of advanced technology

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'Your Utopia' considers surveillance and the perils of advanced technology

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Article: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/30/1227121211/book-review-bora-chung-your-utopia-author-of-cursed-bunny
Journal: NPR
Issued Date: January 30, 2024
Page: -
Language: English(English)
Country: UNITED STATES
City: -
Book: Your Utopia
Writer: Bora Chung
Translator: Anton Hur

About the Author

Bora Chung
Birth : 1976 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Bora
Family Name : Chung
Korean Name : 정보라
ISNI : 0000000463322293
Works : 17

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English(English)

As concepts go, "utopia" is a spectacularly Janus-faced one. The word itself is encrusted with opposing meanings, signifying both an ideal place and no place. Every utopia also encodes a dystopia; an imagined ideal defines itself against antipodean values, lightness against darkness. Korean writer Bora Chung thoroughly embraces the term's quirk of contradiction in her new story collection Your Utopia. Working again with Anton Hur, who translated her first story collection Cursed Bunny into English, Chung now scares up scenarios set in both the near past and near future.

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