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Blowfish

Blowfish
Author
Cho Gyeongran
Co-Author
-
Translator
Chi-Young Kim
Publisher
Astra House
Published Year
2025
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century > Others

Original Title
복어
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Bogeo
ISBN
9781662601781
Page
288
Volume
-
Jo Kyung Ran
  • Kyung Ran
  • Birth : 1969 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kyung Ran
  • Family Name : Jo
  • Korean Name : 조경란
  • ISNI : 0000000038827944
  • Works : 20
Descriptions
  • English(English)

Blowfish is a postmodern novelin four parts, alternating between the respective stories of a female sculptor and a male architect. Death is the motif connecting these parallel lives. The sculptor’s grandmother killed herself by eating poisonous blowfish in front of her husband and child, while the architect’s elder brother leapt to his death from the fifth floor of an apartment building. Now, both protagonists are contemplating their own suicides. The sculptor and architect cross paths once in Seoul, and meet again in Tokyo, while the sculptor is learning to prepare a fatal serving of blowfish.
The narrative loosely approximates a love story, but this is no romance in the normal sense. For the woman, the man is a pitstop on the road to her own suicide. For the man, the woman forestalls death and offers him a final chance. Through the conflicting impressions they have of one another, the characters look back on their lives; it is only the desire to create art that calls them back from death.

source : https://www.amazon.com/Blowfish-Novel-Kyung-ran-Jo/dp/1662601786