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2.5
Recitation
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"Bae Suah offers the chance to un-know—to see the every-day afresh and be defamiliarized with what we believe we know—which is no small offering."—Music & LiteratureMusic & Literature
The meeting between a group of emigrants and a mysterious, wandering actress in an empty train station sets the stage for RecitationRecitation, a fragmentary yet lyrical meditation on language, travel, and memory by South Korea's most prominent contemporary female author. As the actress recounts the fascinating story of her stateless existence, an unreliable narrator and the interruptions of her audience challenge traditional notions of storytelling and identity.
The meeting between a group of emigrants and a mysterious, wandering actress in an empty train station sets the stage for RecitationRecitation, a fragmentary yet lyrical meditation on language, travel, and memory by South Korea's most prominent contemporary female author. As the actress recounts the fascinating story of her stateless existence, an unreliable narrator and the interruptions of her audience challenge traditional notions of storytelling and identity.
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2.5
“I adore Untold Night and Day. I think Bae Suah was fantastic with it. The prose was exactly what it needed to be. Recitation falls far short of this expectation, and I think it may have something to do with how long it is. 277 pages is way too long for a story like this, with its extremely heavy prose and foggy narrative structure. I wanted to love this, like I lived Untold Night and Day, but Recitation felt like it was written by a different person entirely.
2.25 stars.”
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