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Book Review: Bora Chung’s “Your Utopia” — A Deep, Rich Well of Imagination

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Article: https://artsfuse.org/287677/book-review-bora-chungs-your-utopia-a-deep-rich-well-of-imagination/
Journal: the arts fuse
Issued Date: February 22, 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 : 16

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English(English)

The eight stories in Bora Chung’s Your Utopia, like those in a previous collection, have been variously categorized as comedy, horror, science fiction, fantasy, though surprisingly seldom as social and political commentary. Such adjectives as spooky, funny, gross, haunting, terrifying, uncanny, chilling, powerful, disturbing, and unnerving spill from reviews. Rightly so. One can easily imagine Hollywood leaping to make a movie of one or two of her stories, though the extensive publicity campaign described in the uncorrected proof makes no mention of film rights. (It does promise a “buzz campaign” and “extensive influencer outreach.”)

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