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ISBN
9788937473043
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Author
Lee Jangwook이장욱
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Publisher
LTI Korea한국문학번역원
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Year Published
2013
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Description 작품 소개
The novel "Stranger than Paradise" offers a unique narrative structure with each character's point of view accessible to the reader. The book reads like a road trip movie telling the story of two men and a woman traveling in a car.
Kim and Choi are the two male characters and Jeong is Kim's wife. They all attended the same university and are on their way to attend the funeral of their mutual female friend, "A." While traveling, each of them reminisces about A, reflecting on things that had happened between them. All three had once loved A, but each has a bitter memory of their love not coming to fruition.
Author Lee Jangwook constructed the narrative by telling it from the perspective of each character: first Kim, then Choi, and finally Jeong. There is a twist at the end of the novel: there was a camera observing them the whole time, completely altering the perspective of the three characters.
The novel offers a unique narrative structure where readers experience events through multiple perspectives, ultimately questioning the nature of truth and memory. The Rashomon-style storytelling makes this work appealing to literary fiction readers interested in experimental narrative techniques.
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