침묵의 미래

The story grew from a news item: somewhere on earth a language dies every two weeks. In this fable an unnamed great power has built a Museum of Minority Languages and filled it with the final speakers of tongues on the verge of extinction. The narrator is not a person but something like the soul of a language, confined in the museum alongside them. It describes the everyday existence of these last speakers, who have no one left to talk to in their own words, and tells its own story as a language that knows it is ending.

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About the book

Form

Short story

Length

352 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2012 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

32 when first published

ISBN

9788970128849 (original)