We collect the minimum personal information required to reply to your query. Mimi, who has never seen her own performance, asks video artist C to film her performance. I have the right to destroy myself, Young-ha Kim ; translated from the Korean by Chi-Young Kim. His career as a professional writer started in 1995 right after discharge when his short-story A Meditation On Mirror (Geoure daehan myeongsang) appeared in Review, and the following year, won the 1st New Writer's Award given by Munhak Dongne with the novel, I Have a Right to Destroy Myself (Naneun nareul pagoehal gwolliga itda). She’s dating K, a superspeed cab driver, but seduces his older brother C, who’s a video artist. The Giver is passing on insight to Jonas about being a Receiver. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young-ha Kim (2007, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices … A good story, cleverly told, and one that will prove very entertaining to a casual reader as well as a critical one. I had no idea what I was getting into when I started reading. Required information: name, email Such is a shame. And if someone asks me the kind of question I myself might pose, I can tell he's lonely.” ― Young-Ha Kim, I Have the Right to Destroy Myself The protagonist asks , borrowing Shakespeare’s words, “Then is it sin to rush to the secret house of death ere death dare come to us?”. This undernourished story is intriguing, though only a germ of a novel. I like dark and rough, but (unfortunately) I also like well-written plots and characters to have shards of realism. His head is wrapped in a towel, like a … YOUNG-HA KIM is the author of seven novels—four published in the United States, including the acclaimed I Have the Right to Destroy Myself and the award-winning Black Flower—and five short-story collections.He has won every major Korean literature award, and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Kim Young-ha’s “I Have The Right To Destroy Myself” is a short novel that attempts quite a lot and achieves almost everything it attempts. I have the right to destroy myself. Kim Young-ha’s I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (1996) connects reality and illusion and life and death in the way a Mobius strip creates a curved surface with an indistinguishable inside and outside. The book is set in Seoul and deals with rather dark and uncomfortable issues. The suicide assistant would be a perfect role for Lee Byung-hun: shit, he's played variations on the role a number of times. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself Young-Ha Kim, Author, Chi-Young Kim, Translator , trans. The English editions of Kim Young-ha’s I Have the Right to Destroy Myself, Your Republic Is Calling You, and Black Flower were published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who will also publish his latest book in 2017. "Othello does not kill Desdemona in jealousy, but in a conviction forced upon him by the almost superhuman art of Iago, such as any man must and would have entertained who had believed lago's honesty as Othello did. That somehow, we are urged by this desire to destroy ourselves in order to uncover something that seems unreachable, far, far away...and that in itself is beautiful. It plateaued and then it picked up a bit. They have an obligation to their family, friends, and society. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (Harvest Original) Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. 3 stars because part one was amazing. 1 of 1 2 of 1. Shit has been going for some years but now it's different now i literally lost myself my mind is fucking sick i hate everything and everyone and i keep pretending every day that i have a good normal life , guess i just don't fit in normal life. The Giver knows doing the right thing is not always respected, and can make one easier to control. I love the almost banal quality Kim gives to his sex scenes, even if I don't always believe the women he depicts exist in real life. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself makes significant allusions to three paintings: “The Death of Marat” by Jacques-Louis David, “Judith” by Gustav Klimt, and “Death of Sardanapalus” by Eugene Delacroix. 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