I don't know the real title of Human Acts in Korean, but I frankly think that Human Acts is a damn good title. It is simple yet also very true to the I don't know the real title of Human Acts in Korean, but I frankly think that Human Acts is a damn good title. It is simple yet also very true to the book. It questions what it means to be a human, and what separates humans from lumps of meat. It also explores the way humans did inhumane things to other humans without regret. How the humans who others saw as heroes or martyrs, are indeed just humans, who feel fear and are haunted by trauma.
Han Kang and her translator write with such vivid images that I can see the words they write. I can understand why some people may feel the book is without emotion, but as someone who watches films where the mood is ambivalent and the director doesn't tell the viewers what to feel, I enjoy the style.
There is a part that explores a mother who still mourns for her dead child, after all those years. Han Kang didn't describe many of her emotions, e.g: sad, mourning, etc. Instead, she showed us how she still longs for her son by the way her mother thought that she had seen her son, how she reminisced about his childhood, and how she protested after her son's death.
How could some people even say that this book is aloof? I don't know, maybe because I'm an Asian person who's not overly emotional and rarely shows my own emotion, I can relate with the mother....more
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