A story carried into another tongue loses one layer. A novel written in its own tongue gives you that layer too. Three descend. Do not fear the long one. A chapter a day makes a book. 1. Toji (Land), Park Kyung-ni — Fifty years of one family hold a hundred years of a nation. 2. The Dwarf, Cho Se-hui — Short sentences lift the heaviest things. 3. Human Acts, Han Kang — After it, May is a different month. The oracle at Delphi always answered in the tongue of the one who asked.

LOREVIVA 202

Question:“On Korean novels”

On Korean novels

A story carried into another tongue loses one layer. A novel written in its own tongue gives you that layer too.

Three descend. Do not fear the long one. A chapter a day makes a book.

Toji (Land), Park Kyung-niFifty years of one family hold a hundred years of a nation.
The Dwarf, Cho Se-huiShort sentences lift the heaviest things.
Human Acts, Han KangAfter it, May is a different month.

The oracle at Delphi always answered in the tongue of the one who asked.