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Han Kang's The Vegetarian: Is it Possible to Escape from Myself?
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한강의 『채식주의자』: '나'로부터의 탈출은 가능한가?

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세계문학비교학회 세계문학비교연구 세계문학비교연구 제59호 KCI Accredited Journals
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2017.1
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5 - 26 (22page)

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This article attempts to read Han Kang’s The Vegetarian by Levinas’s term of “the ‘I’[moi] as self-sufficient” to reveal how violence in everyday life is produced and repeated. Emmanuel Levinas in On Escape, published in 1935, argues that the totality of being in the Western philosophy originates from “the ‘I’ as self-sufficient.” The Vegetarian shows that violence in reality happens everywhere, unless the self-centered I escapes from myself. Younghye’s husband, the narrator of the part I, and her brother-in-law, the focal point of the part II, reveal how they are not capable of thinking outside themselves. And thus they remain unaware of the fact that they are deeply involved in the production and repetition of daily violence. The novel hints some possibility of escape from oneself only, and very vaguely, from In-hye’s constant reminding of herself as a predator; she is the very person who imprisons her sister in the asylum. In a word, the novel suggests that violence happens anywhere and anytime unless I am aware of myself as a possible predator. Yeong-hye is a reference point, undefinable and inscrutable, that mirrors all characters of the novel. Unlike other characters in reality, she succeeds in escaping from herself only through her death.
#『채식주의자』 #레비나스 #'자기 충족적인 나 #' '나'로부터의 탈출 #폭력의 인지불가능성 #The Vegetarian #Levinas #'the self-sufficient I #' escape from myself #unawareness of violence

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/ / https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/books/review/the-vegetarian-by-han-kang.html Feathers, Lori / / Words Without Borders: New Palestinian Writing google schola Han, Kang / 2015 / The Vegetarian / Portobello Books google schola Julia Pascal / / The Vegetarian by Han Kang, book review: Society stripped to the bone google schola Levinas, Emmanuel / 1969 / Totality and Infinity / Duquesne UP google schola

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