Han Kang and Jorge Carrión
Fiction as a Scalpel
With The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker prize, Han Kang has become the most prominent female Korean writer. The novel discusses insubordination, misogynist violence, contemporary art, food and humans’ relationship with the plant world, amongst other important questions for the 21st century. The writer, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, talks about this and other books (such as Human Acts) with the writer Jorge Carrión, who recently visited Korea for the translation of his book Bookshops and who has covered similar topics in his books Los muertos (The Dead), Los huérfanos (The Orphans) and Los turistas (The Tourists).
Participants: Han Kang, Jorge Carrión
Related to Kosmopolis, Kosmopolis 2019
24 March 2019