This conference by Pierre Bisiou and Kyungran Choi, punctuated by readings from Anny Romand, will present the work of the Korean author, Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024.
In the work of the Korean author Han Kang, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024, literature creates a fragile space of memory, vigilance, and healing. In "Impossibles adieux," she unfolds a writing that is both intimate and polyphonic, intertwining the voices of the living with those of the dead. This polyphony embodies the very difficulty of articulating trauma, of carrying a memory that exceeds individual speech. The novel is a place of disturbance, where poetry meets the fantastic. The real slips away without ever disappearing, allowing itself to be traversed by apparitions and diffuse presences that are sensitive modalities of memory, and ways for the dead to continue haunting the living. The past erupts into the present, the traumatic history of the Jeju Island massacres of 1948 surfaces: their memory is transmitted like an open wound across generations, and Han Kang's writing gives form to this persistence. How to write without covering up, without betraying, without adding violence to violence? To welcome the voices of the past without confining them? To finally make language a place of attention and care? By Pierre Bisiou (editor and translator of Han Kang), Kyungran Choi (translator of Han Kang), and Anny Romand (actress)
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