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"Can the past help the present? Can the dead save the living?" …
"Can the past help the present?
Can the dead save the living?"
from Nobel Lecture by Han Kang
Writer, Readers, and texts
Diverse Perspectives
of Narrators
The Boy,1980
Although as a minor, the reason for being made to resist the violence of the state - conscience
The Boy's Friend,1980
Numerous souls lost their lives to the violence of the state
The Editor, 1985
The way the survivors of the state's violence endure - forgetfulness and branding
The Prisoner, 1990
The testimonies of survivors, for whom even recalling memories is a pain akin to death
The Factory Girl, 2002
The testimonies of survivors, for whom even recalling memories is a pain akin to death, consecutively
The Boy's Mother, 2010
Another victim who remembers the victims
Intertextuality
"Portrait(자화상)" by Yoon Dong-Joo (Poem)
"On the Mountain and the Hill(산에 언덕에)" by Shin Dong-yup(Poem)
"The Grass(풀)" by Kim Soo-young(Poem)
“Beyond Death, Beyond the Darkness of the Age (죽음을 넘어, 시대의 어둠을 넘어)” by Hwang Sok-young
When the day comes(그 날이 오면) by Shim Hoon (Poem)
Time and Space
The different perspectives of the news back then and now
May 21st, 1980
May 12th, 2020
A nightmare awakened after 45 years? A new leap toward becoming a democratic advanced nation?
News article : How South Korea’s President Planned a Military Takeover, Then Blew It, New York Times