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The brother-in-law reads like an "abang2an". The prose is exquisite though, it becomes more impressionistic here, utterly artsy, as if filtered through the in-law's own artistic self-importance. We also see a flicker of agency from Yeong-hye, with her opening up and expressing her kind-of desire.
— Jan 21, 2026 04:24AM
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The husband is an insufferable character. He told us how "normal" his life is with his wife, but the way he perceives her and treats her is anything but normal. So authoritarian and dismissive, oblivious to his violence. Han Kang delivers this with so much eloquence that the husband's restrained narration and his actual actions clatter with a steely dissonance.
— Jan 20, 2026 04:17AM
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Jan 21, 2026 04:25AM
It seems erotic at times but also feels restrained.
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