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흰

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Original Title: 흰
Title Romanization: Huin
Title Sub: the elegy of whiteness
English Title(Printed): The White Book
Classification: KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
Author: Han Kang
Co-Author: -
Published Year: 2016
Publisher: 문학동네
ISBN: 9788954640718
Main Characters: The narrator, her older sister
Subject/Theme: Life and death; boundaries; finite world; mourning

About the Author

Han Kang
Birth : 1970 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Kang
Family Name : Han
Korean Name : 한강
ISNI : 0000000054537103
Works : 161

Plot

The narrator leaves Korea for a writer’s residency and arrives in a foreign city, where she knows no one. She lives with memories of past sadness, including a death that she has not been able to mourn properly. In this city, she finally resolves to address a long-neglected grief.

Descriptions(Languages 3)

Korean(한국어)
English(English)
French(Français)

2018년에 출간된 한 강의 장편소설이다. 작품은 삶과 죽음에 관한 작가의 감각을 '흰 것'이라는 매개를 통해 서술하고 있다. 작가는 삶과 죽음의 경계를 허물어 유한한 세계를 무한의 세계로 확장시키고 동시에 슬픔과 고통 속에 놓인 인간을 다른 세계로 나아가게 만든다.

This novel by Han Kang was published in 2018. It describes life and death through the medium of the color white.

À la faveur d’un séjour à l’étranger, Han Kang pose sur une feuille quelques mots, tous liés à une couleur, le blanc. Le blanc d’une couverture pour bébé, le blanc du sel ou de la neige, le blanc de la lune et celui du magnolia. À travers chacun de ces mots, elle progresse dans sa mémoire, dans son histoire.

« Nous avançons ainsi sur la surface tranchante du temps – au bord d’une falaise transparente. Nous posons un pied sur l’extrémité dangereuse de la durée vécue et avançons l’autre pied dans le vide. Non que nous soyons courageux, mais nous n’avons pas le choix. En ce moment même, je ressens cette menace. Je me hasarde dans un livre que je n’ai pas encore écrit, dans un temps que je n’ai pas encore vécu. »

Ce nouveau roman de Han Kang est un voyage dans un paysage de neige et de douceur, vers les sentiments les plus intimes d’une femme face à elle-même.

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