새의 시선

Camera angles and a single still photograph carry the story back to the Yongsan tragedy of 2009, and further back to 1986, when Kim Se-jin and Lee Jae-ho set themselves on fire. Asking whether what a frozen image shows can explain what came before and after, it turns to the survivors and how they are to remember the dead. The image of a bird rising towards freedom runs through it, a hope that is beautiful and also frightening, because it means enduring the flames.

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About the book

Form

Short story

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Korea

First published

2017 by Moonji

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

9788932030975 (original)