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Supporting the channel is a great help in making good videos ❤ / @booktuber ▶ Go to main text 00:00 Intro 3:41 Go to reading of Han Kang's 'Blue Stone' ▶ Book introduction About the miraculous event of living as a human being in this world to the end The joy of observing the trajectory of Han Kang's literature Quietly tying a knot on the road A deep line drawn by connecting three dots Reading yesterday's Han Kang that made today's Han Kang. Since his debut in 1993, writer Han Kang has consistently examined the loneliness and pain at the root of life with solid and delicate sentences. All three volumes of his short story collections published to date have been republished by Moonji Publishing. Rather than the colorless and odorless word 'republication,' how about thinking of it as the work of carefully connecting three short story collections, each with different colors and formats, and placing them on a single line? The first collection of short stories written by the author in her twenties and forty-four years was published in 1995 as the first collection of short stories, and her first book overall, Love of Yeosu. In her second collection of short stories, Fruit of My Woman, published five years later, Han Kang seems to have encountered “the ordinary truth that the process of changing like flowing water is me,” but soon asks again. “Who was the person who wrote each of these short stories?” (“Author’s Note”) Then, twelve years later, she published her third collection of short stories, Yellow Patterned Eternity. In between, the long stories Your Cold Hands, The Vegetarian, The Wind Blows, Go Away, and Greek Time were written. Short stories are like the flame of a match. First, you light the fire, and then you watch with all your might until it goes out. Those moments pushed me forward with all their might. ―“Author’s Note” (2012), Yellow Patterned Eternity You have to look back to find your trajectory. There are things that have changed and things that have not changed in Han Kang's short stories during the publication of three novel collections. In "Love of Yeosu," the lonely and isolated beings who desperately express their longing for humans and the world, and who leave, abandon, wander, and fall, are hurt and misaligned as they awkwardly try to accept the world and each other that they so desperately longed for in "The Fruit of My Woman." And in "Yellow Patterned Eternity," the vitality burns even stronger amidst the will for regeneration and despair. The dignified beings still suffer, but they finally try to embrace the other person. The place where they must eventually return, the leaves pushing up the veins, the flowers blooming during the recovery period, the natural changes and flow that they tried to capture during the "connecting the dots" work are in harmony with the work of photographer Lee Jeong-jin used on the cover. On the other hand, isn't what remains unchanged Han Kang's fierce question? The questions of ‘I want to live, I have to live, how should I live?’ are never left unanswered, and throughout twenty-one novels, they ask about the existence of humans, life and death, and this world, but inevitably they cannot reach an answer. However, the question itself, like a pale flame, the heat of loneliness and delicate sadness derived from the question, become the power that draws them in the work and loves and keeps us alive. Since it has changed but has not changed, I have carefully changed the arrangement of the novels and modified some expressions, but left what should be left as is. I will connect the author’s own question in ‘The Fruit of My Woman’, which asked “who” earlier, with the newly written author’s words in ‘Yellow Patterned Eternity.’ I recommend that you retrace the trajectory together. Someone has been writing alone for twenty years or so. The Han River is still walking. I know. The twelve years of time spent writing these novels cannot come back, and I cannot meet myself, who was so vivid as I was writing all these sentences, again. I think that fact should not be felt as a loss. This should never be a farewell, because I am someone who wants to continue living while writing. ―「Author's Note」(2018), 『Yellow Patterned Eternity』 Han Kang's third collection of short stories, 『Yellow Patterned Eternity』, which passionately engraves fleeting signs and quiet silences. Han Kang's third collection of short stories, including the medium-length novel 『Yellow Patterned Eternity』, written over seven months starting in the summer of 2002, contains seven works written and published over twelve years. While Han Kang explores the origin of existence and the world through dozens of seasons, all of her strength and senses linger in pain or in the traces of pain, and in this collection, she writes medium-length and short stories that are closely connected and in harmony with long stories such as 『The Vegetarian』 and 『The Wind Blows, Go Away』, and these traces are preserved intact. If you ask the characters in 『Yellow Patterned Eternity』, who live believing that “a heartless and listless attitude is the only shield I have against life” (“Europa”), “How come you’re not so tired?”, they will only answer, “No. I’m tired, but I just endure it.” (“Hunza”) “Gritted my teeth at those persistent and hot questions and tossed and turned until dawn” (“Recovering Human”), the will to regenerate and the vitality that gradually advances burn even hotter in despair. “I’ve gone as far as I can go inside me. There was no other way than to go out. [… …] I knew I couldn’t live like a funeral anymore.” (“Europa”) Han Kang’s sentences reproduce not only heavy pain and suffering, but also “a moment of light, trembling, a breath taken in, the stillness of water” on the manuscript. The author’s intuition, which overwhelms experience and concepts, will be conveyed to us, the readers, as if paint seeped into the grain of the paper. A self-evident and calm daily life, a low voice that says that daily life will surely come is soothing a certain heart stuck in pain. [… … ] Isn’t literature something that broadens life in layers and encourages the heart to pay attention to the details of life, even the smallest things? Today, again, the yellow-patterned eternity! _ Jo Kang-seok (literary critic) # Han Kang # Nobel Prize in Literature # Author Han Kang # Book # Bestseller # Book Recommendation # Steadyseller # # asmr # self-realization # Book Recommendation Man # Butterfly School # Man Who Recommends Books # book # reading # booktube This video was created using VREW.