한강의 문학 세계 편집하기 (부분)

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Han Kang’s literature gazes into the deepest layers of human existence, confronting pain and compassion, violence and life. Her works form a world of silence shaped by language—a poetic journey that probes both the violence humans inflict upon one another and the enduring dignity of life that survives within it.

In <i>The Vegetarian</i> (2007), Han depicts an ordinary woman who gradually transforms into a plant amid social norms and violent gazes, revealing the anxiety and resistance that dwell in the human psyche. The novel was hailed by the international press, including in Germany and Spain, as a “brutal yet beautiful exploration of humanity.” The English translation by Deborah Smith was published in 2015, and in 2016 it won the Man Booker International Prize.

<i>Human Acts</i> (2014) revisits the wounds of historical violence through individual voices, portraying the May 18 Democratic Uprising of 1980. Critics have described it as “a work that translates the trauma of modern Korean history into the language of world literature.”

In <i>The White Book</i> (2016), Han captures loss, memory, and the fragile texture of existence in delicate language. The work was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize.

<i>We Do Not Part</i> (2021) received both the French Prix Médicis Étranger and the Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature, further elevating the global standing of Korean literature. In her acceptance speech, Han stated that “history is a question about human nature,” emphasizing that literature is not merely narrative but a means of reflecting on human cruelty and compassion.

Upon receiving the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, Han declared in her lecture, “All my questions have been about love.” While confronting human violence and suffering, she seeks through language the possibility of life and coexistence. For Han, literature is “an act of opposing everything that destroys life,” and her sentences remain a record of profound empathy for wounded humanity.

Her literary world speaks of the human spirit that does not lose its light even in pain, and of the solidarity of life sustained through one another’s existence. Embracing pain in poetic prose and drawing hope from silence, Han Kang’s literature asks us once more what it means to live as human beings today.