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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Light and Thread by Han Kang review a tantalising book of reflections

Han Kang's Nobel Prize-winning work explores historical trauma and human fragility through poetic prose that balances outward examination of events like the Gwangju massacre with inward psychological portrayal, leaving interpretive gaps for readers.
fromThe Atlantic
5 months ago

When Illness Makes You Into a New Person

One hundred years ago, Virginia Woolf wondered why, "considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings," it had not "taken its place with love, battle, and jealousy among the prime themes of literature." In the century since, Woolf's provocation has been met many times over-in works as varied as Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals, and John Green's YA best seller The Fault in Our Stars.
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