Vegetarian
by H
About This Novel
In order to escape the violence from her husband, family, society and the crowd, she decided to become a tree. In the eyes of Yinghui's husband, Mr. Zheng, Yinghui before her illness was an ordinary woman: neither tall nor short, hair neither long nor short, plain in appearance, dressed in ordinary clothes, docile, plain and quiet. Just as he hoped, Yinghui perfectly played the role of an ordinary wife-taking care of the housework and serving her husband, just like thousands of traditional women.
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Exaggerated in name
I read it a long time ago. It seems to be an old book. It is good, but it is only an upper-middle-class book in serious literature. The language tends to be Yu Hua-type plain but not as profound as Yu Hua. Maybe vegetarianism and feminism are politically correct. It won the Nobel Prize.
It was really beautiful. I was particularly impressed by the scene where her father tied the dog to the back of the motorcycle and ran until the dog died, then cooked it and ate it, just because the dead dog tastes better! 😝
Extreme feminism - if you can't beat it, you'll die. Not as tough as I imagined There is only the endless desire to escape It definitely does not address the plight of women under the "patriarchy" as some of the comments above say. I can see women's self-escape, forbearance, and unconscious non-resistance. I can also see it - no matter what the situation, people need to be seen and acknowledged.
Maybe it's because I haven't gotten used to the writing technique yet. Changing perspectives without warning makes me a little dizzy. But this special conception and writing method are quite interesting. Especially the last two chapters, about going to visit and whether to transfer to the hospital, triggered a lot of thinking and recalling scenes. Look at Yeong-hye from the perspective of three people. In the end, she is the sister who is the same as her but different. She loves her and hates her. She has repeatedly tortured and broken her. She unknowingly tries to understand her. Yinghui is not a person, she is the epitome of thousands of things in common life. Is she really crazy... Maybe she is free... But not completely...
I feel that it has a deeper meaning. Maybe I didn't feel it too clearly, but I felt a deep pain, which reminded me of the uncontrollable insecurity in myself. I inexplicably do behaviors that others cannot understand every day. This behavior is triggered in a certain place, and it is the same every day. I know that such behavior is abnormal, but if I don't do it, I feel uncomfortable and something bad will happen. I live very tired every day, use strange behaviors to maintain my consciousness of learning, and live my life like a machine. I don't know why I have to live so tiredly. But when I am so tired, I will get some good worldly achievements. People around me recognize me for these worldly achievements, which makes me unable to let go of all these things that make me feel uncomfortable and abnormal. I feel like if I don't do these weird behaviors, I won't be able to maintain my awareness of learning. I am unwilling to make changes, because making changes means most changes, because I am a person who likes to maintain the status quo. I don't know why there is always a feeling that if I don't do these strange behaviors, I will go back to the person I least wanted to be before, a bad person in the eyes of others, and a bad person in my own eyes.
After reading this book, I was deeply moved. Yeong-hye couldn't escape the current situation and she started to get sick. She started to have nightmares and couldn't sleep. She didn't eat meat. She also had a childhood where she was often slapped by her father and the dog that bit her. Later she got married and lived with her husband. She took care of him like a nanny. When Yeong-hye didn't eat meat, he didn't want to take her to see a psychiatrist to help Yeong-hui out of this predicament. Instead, he teamed up with Yeong-hye's family to force her to eat meat. It's so sad that I couldn't help crying. It's a very real dilemma for women. They all want Young-hye to continue her old life as a nanny. When Young-hye doesn't want to have sex, her husband forces her three times. I've deleted the description here. The description in the Taiwanese version makes people even more angry. And in the end, when Young-hye's sister stopped the doctor from inserting the stomach tube, did Young-hye feel that what she said was really listened to? Will she get better? In the end, Young-hye's sister is actually the same as Young-hye. I don't know if they will all get better later.
According to the latest news from the Nobel Prize official website, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature will be won by Korean female writer Han Jiang. The reason for the award: She "faced historical trauma with strong poetic prose and exposed the fragility of human life."
Well enough
Weird, I can't understand the back part, I'm very confused@.@
The sharp words, the desolate humanity, the distinctly different characters, are thought-provoking.
A very realistic book, very scary to think about
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Official(29)Scraped 3d ago
Exaggerated in name
I read it a long time ago. It seems to be an old book. It is good, but it is only an upper-middle-class book in serious literature. The language tends to be Yu Hua-type plain but not as profound as Yu Hua. Maybe vegetarianism and feminism are politically correct. It won the Nobel Prize.
It was really beautiful. I was particularly impressed by the scene where her father tied the dog to the back of the motorcycle and ran until the dog died, then cooked it and ate it, just because the dead dog tastes better! 😝
Extreme feminism - if you can't beat it, you'll die. Not as tough as I imagined There is only the endless desire to escape It definitely does not address the plight of women under the "patriarchy" as some of the comments above say. I can see women's self-escape, forbearance, and unconscious non-resistance. I can also see it - no matter what the situation, people need to be seen and acknowledged.
Maybe it's because I haven't gotten used to the writing technique yet. Changing perspectives without warning makes me a little dizzy. But this special conception and writing method are quite interesting. Especially the last two chapters, about going to visit and whether to transfer to the hospital, triggered a lot of thinking and recalling scenes. Look at Yeong-hye from the perspective of three people. In the end, she is the sister who is the same as her but different. She loves her and hates her. She has repeatedly tortured and broken her. She unknowingly tries to understand her. Yinghui is not a person, she is the epitome of thousands of things in common life. Is she really crazy... Maybe she is free... But not completely...
I feel that it has a deeper meaning. Maybe I didn't feel it too clearly, but I felt a deep pain, which reminded me of the uncontrollable insecurity in myself. I inexplicably do behaviors that others cannot understand every day. This behavior is triggered in a certain place, and it is the same every day. I know that such behavior is abnormal, but if I don't do it, I feel uncomfortable and something bad will happen. I live very tired every day, use strange behaviors to maintain my consciousness of learning, and live my life like a machine. I don't know why I have to live so tiredly. But when I am so tired, I will get some good worldly achievements. People around me recognize me for these worldly achievements, which makes me unable to let go of all these things that make me feel uncomfortable and abnormal. I feel like if I don't do these weird behaviors, I won't be able to maintain my awareness of learning. I am unwilling to make changes, because making changes means most changes, because I am a person who likes to maintain the status quo. I don't know why there is always a feeling that if I don't do these strange behaviors, I will go back to the person I least wanted to be before, a bad person in the eyes of others, and a bad person in my own eyes.
After reading this book, I was deeply moved. Yeong-hye couldn't escape the current situation and she started to get sick. She started to have nightmares and couldn't sleep. She didn't eat meat. She also had a childhood where she was often slapped by her father and the dog that bit her. Later she got married and lived with her husband. She took care of him like a nanny. When Yeong-hye didn't eat meat, he didn't want to take her to see a psychiatrist to help Yeong-hui out of this predicament. Instead, he teamed up with Yeong-hye's family to force her to eat meat. It's so sad that I couldn't help crying. It's a very real dilemma for women. They all want Young-hye to continue her old life as a nanny. When Young-hye doesn't want to have sex, her husband forces her three times. I've deleted the description here. The description in the Taiwanese version makes people even more angry. And in the end, when Young-hye's sister stopped the doctor from inserting the stomach tube, did Young-hye feel that what she said was really listened to? Will she get better? In the end, Young-hye's sister is actually the same as Young-hye. I don't know if they will all get better later.
According to the latest news from the Nobel Prize official website, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature will be won by Korean female writer Han Jiang. The reason for the award: She "faced historical trauma with strong poetic prose and exposed the fragility of human life."
Well enough
Weird, I can't understand the back part, I'm very confused@.@
The sharp words, the desolate humanity, the distinctly different characters, are thought-provoking.
A very realistic book, very scary to think about
