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Workshop Heretic: Literary criticism without a net: my attempt to analyze Han Kang's "The Vegetarian"

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keep them all coming. i have to say that when you first discussed the conversion to vegentarianism, i thought of isaac bashevis singer's story, the letter writer, where he says that animals experience an 'eternal Treblinka.' My own take: http://me-and-err.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-vegetarian-han-kang.html Interesting, the English translation does not, in my memory, use the verb erase once. Interesting what may be missing there. I went back and looked at the Korean text to make sure I wasn't making this up. Sure enough, that verb is in there a lot, although I can see, just reading the little sampling of text that goes with the search function hits, that it might have been translated in other ways than "erase" in a lot of these cases. "Wipe off" comes to mind as a possible other translation for a few of the places I see it, like the movie maker asking her not to wipe off her makeup. I was wonder now that In hye started to become normal human and found somebody to talk about herself and se

Workshop Heretic: Literary criticism without a net: my attempt to analyze Han Kang's "The Vegetarian" Tuesday, December 18, 2018 Literary criticism without a net: my attempt to analyze Han Kang's "The Vegetarian" In early November, I finished the re-write of my novel and decided to just read for a few months, taking some time off of writing. The first book I wanted to read was The Vegetarian by Korean writer Han Kang. In order to feel like I was being super productive, I read it in Korean, so I could feel like I was reading good literature and also improving an important skill for me. I got th

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