Book Club with Julia and Victoria 121 Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan — Gossip and the Grotesque
Julia and Victoria grapple with the grotesque narrative choices in Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, translated by Chi-young Kim. Julia incorrectly uses the word “epigraph” when she means “epitaph” approximately 25 times.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan
Bonus: Weird Short Fiction with Evan James Sheldon
Minari (film)
Pachinko (TV series)
Modern Family by Cheon Myeong-kwan
The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
International Booker Prize – Whale
Namjoon’s Bookshelf Twitter thread on Whale
Aschenputtel - Grimm Fairy Tale version of Cinderella
Recommendations:
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Children and Their Cages by Evan James Sheldon
Books that inspired Cheon Myeong-kwan's Whale
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Currently Obsessed:
Handsome (podcast)
Marry My Dead Body (TV series)
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber