> ... the Yi Sang Literary Award, named after one of the strangest writers of any place or time, a hero of mine whose fugitive work and tortured life still baffle and fascinate today. He died in 1937, without a book to his name. But decades later, Han came across a line from his journals—“I believe that humans should be plants”—that inspired The Vegetarian.
#HanKang #TheVegetarian #YiSang in this article made me think of Fernando Pessoa, never publish while alive?
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> She[Han Kang] wondered why such a genius would want a strictly animal human to be so[plants]. Han tried to picture the era in which Lee Sang lived. It was the colonization period, where the future seemed unfathomable. Forced to live in a violent world, the sensitive poet had wanted humans to become plants.
https://www.donga.com/en/List/article/all/20071102/255688/1
#韓江 #한강 #LeeSang #YiSang
> In her college years Han became obsessed with a line of poetry by the Korean modernist poet Yi Sang: "I believe that humans should be plants."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Kang
#HanKang #TheVegetarian #MongolianMark #YiSang
#HumanShouldBePlants
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