Lastly, death and madness, and the definition people give them also takeĪ large portion of the commentary, in essence closing the book in the most Sex and how they can dictate people's actions, the blights of violence and theĮmpowerment deriving from the lack of shame are also presented in all their The whole extend of Yeong-hye's family to highlight the fact. The failure of family and marriage as institutions is another one, with Kang using Reach in order to escape them and the consequences such a decision can have. Korean society is the most obvious one, along with the extremes one has to Particularly regarding what is expected of them in the still male-dominated S. Nature, through a number of quite pointy social comments. Pages of the book, Han Kang manages to put the knife very deeply into human Greatness of the book however, derives from its context. With the fact that her analysis is thorough to the bone being a true Her dreams and a few words here and there, works wonders for the narrative,

This approach, which allows Yeong-hye to be expressed solely through

Time on a different person in her life, with her actions portrayed from their Protagonist but we “hear” very little of her, since Kang focuses each

These, however, the book is truly impressive. The last part sheds much light to the protagonist's past, in essence making her To combine the three is impressive and in the end, it makes total sense, while However, I have to also say that the way Han Kang managed Secondly, the last part is quite different from the rest, more of anĪbstract and even a bit surrealistic think piece I would say, and I found it aīit dull at points. The last two and was added later in order for Han Kang to come up with a single The fact that the bookĬomprises of three different works becomes obvious at some points, particularlyīecause it seems that the character of Yeong-hye was not included initially in Start with the sole two faults I found in the book. Soon all her relationships start beingīased on violence, shame and desire and the consequences become dire for Unwarranted decision breaks her life completely, leaving her husband perplexedĪnd her family worried and enraged. Vegetarian, completely cutting off anything made of meat. The story follows Yeong-hye, aĭutiful Korean wife, who, after watching a dream, decides to become a That were then compiled into a single title. Vegetarian” is a three-part novel that was initially three separate novelettes Let us take things from the beginning though. As I am not one to go against awards and suggestions, I did as “instructed” and the result was exactly as I hoped for. When I decided to embark upon Korean literature, the most common suggestion I heard was “The Vegeterian”, which a number of people considered a masterpiece, and which had won the Man Booker International Prize in 2016.

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