The Vegetarian

Han Kang (Deborah Smith)
Hogarth Press • 2016

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating m...eat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy. In a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body, her now dangerous endeavor will take Yeong-hye—impossibly, ecstatically, tragically—far from her once-known self altogether.
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Sumár recenzie
Kniha ma najprv pohoršila, ale po zohľadnení súvislostí som ju začala vnímať inak a pochopiť autorkin zámer. Ide o komplexné dielo vnímané ako ženský protest proti patriarchátu, v ktorom hlavná hrdinka sa vzoprie príkazom a nakoniec stratí svoju identitu. Text je rozdelený na tri časti — z pohľadu manžela, švagra a sestry — čo ukazuje beznádej a utláčanie, pričom prerod postavy je znepokojujúci, ale veľkolepý. Kvôli perverznosti a zvláštnosti dielo nie je pre každého, ale mne sa napokon páčilo; hodnotenie: 4/5.

AUTOR: Han Kang NÁZOV: Vegetariánka (The Vegetarian) VYDAVATEĽSTVO: Odeon, OneHotBook DĹŽKA AUDIOKNIHY: 6 hodín 19 minút INTERPRET: Martina Krátká, Zdeňka Žádníková Volencová, Marek Holý, Filip Kaňkovský Ani člověk, ani zvíře – jako rostlina i živočich v lidském těle. Jonghje se jednoho dne probudí z krvavé noční můry a její život se začne dramaticky měnit. Ze všeho nejdřív přestane[...]

Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision to embrace a more “plant-like” existence is a shocking act of subversion. And as her passive rebellion manifests in ever more extreme and frightening forms, scandal, abuse, and estrangement begin to send Yeong-hye spiraling deep into the spaces of her fantasy. In a complete metamorphosis of both mind and body, her now dangerous endeavor will take Yeong-hye—impossibly, ecstatically, tragically—far from her once-known self altogether.