Sunday, June 29, 2025

How can the world be so painful yet so beautiful?

The Nobel Lecture by Han Kang, Nobel Laureate 2024, asks questions that trouble all of us. She explores the evolution of her questions, starting when she was a child evacuating from the city of Gwang Ju in South Korea, during a bloody massacre. There is no resolution, no answer, but we see her questions changing over time. Do I dare to read her books? Am I willing to experience her pain, or the pain of her characters? Read or listen to her lecture. Even that makes one think.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/han/lecture/


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