![]() ![]() 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. ![]() The Vegetarian portrays this sensation intensified to the point of total ego meltdown: How liberating to dissolve into the vast vegetable kingdom, and yet, how frightening. Sun-mi Hwang (Illustrator) (shelved 2 times as written-in-korean) avg rating 3.98 16,868 ratings published 2000. It becomes impossible to detect the borders between one object and another or a person and the space he inhabits. Kusama makes objects and spaces that look as if they’re in the process of being devoured by biomorphic growths, as well as images in which a figure (usually herself) appears dressed in a seething pattern exactly reproduced in the background behind her. She is the author of six novels, three short story collections, and one poetry collection. ![]() Her father, Han Seung-won, is a novelist. Yeong-hye’s brother-in-law (never named) irritably vows that the images he wants to make will be much less carnal than an orgiastic video made by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, but the aesthetic of Kusama’s late work haunts The Vegetarian. The Vegetarian is the American debut for the prolific South Korean writer, who grew up surrounded by books. Perhaps it’s just my own Western upbringing, but the structure of The Vegetarian registers as devotional, a triptych that moves its title character closer and closer to a destructive transcendence that, in turn, infects those closest to her. ![]()
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