Inho Ch'oe
Autore di Another Man's City: A Novel (Library of Korean Literature)
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- 27
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- 1
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- 51
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- 3.6
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3.4 Stars
My first novel of 2015 was appropriate, one both disorienting and quotidian. Dalkey's Korean endeavor is an encouraging one. Another Man's City is a brilliantly weird snapshot of a world in flux, featuring K an out-of-joint protagonist -- one besieged by the numbing details of life, yet plagued by minutiae not entirely his own. Identities become blurred, K is convinced that cheap actors are portraying people in his life, his wife and child are imposters, several roles in his life are "being played" by the same bit stand-ins. I experienced something similar in Miami a few years ago. For a few seconds it was as if everyone in a cafe was an actor, contributing to some epic farce of my life.
K is emblematic of 21st Century Korea, one outpacing its traditions, one augmented by plastic surgery, haunted by regional tensions. There is a noir sensibility to this, sort of like Philip K. Dick (so I imagine) or Memento, even.… (altro)