How Han Kang uses multiple third-person of non-protagonists

In The Vegetarian, it’s the same set of events, Yeong-hye’s decision to be a vegetarian, but from the perspectives of three close relatives of the protagonist: her husband, her brother-in-law, her sisiter. It’s only when reading part three, from Yeong-hye’s sister’s perspective—in the third person narrative— that it occured to me that we never heard …

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White god – anthropocentrism in new clothes?

When my cinephile friend Akhilesh Sreedharan (from my JNU days), recently suggested the film White God on Mubi, I was immediately curious. I have never seen an art house film like White God, that has moved me so much. I was literally in tears, by the end of the film. The feeling was similar to …

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