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Bae Suah’s Narrative Collapse

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Article
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/bae-suahs-narrative-collapse/#!
Journal
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
Issued Date
November 30, 2016
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
Los Angeles
Book
-
Writer
Bae Suah

About the Author

  • Bae Su-ah
  • Birth : 1965 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Suah
  • Family Name : Bae
  • Korean Name : 배수아
  • ISNI : 0000000362669423
  • Works : 27
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  • English(English)

IN BAE SUAH’S newly translated novel A Greater Music, tensions around language and class are a source of constant instability for the Korean narrator — or “nameless I” as she once refers to herself. After falling into a Berlin river, “I” finds herself also submerged in memory. She tries to comprehend her relationships with former lover M, a refined female German language instructor, and the working-class Joachim, a metal worker who is her on-again, off-again boyfriend. She floats between past and present in Bae’s anti-narrative, which collapses time and complicates both our and “I’s” relationship with reality...

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