His Eyes, Her Voice
Ange Mlinko: ‘Greek Lessons’, 10 August 2023
Greek Lessons
by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith and Emily YaeWon.
Hamish Hamilton, 146 pp., £16.99, April,978 0 241 60027 6 Show More
by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith and Emily YaeWon.
Hamish Hamilton, 146 pp., £16.99, April,
“... with were everywhere,’ she thinks in the climactic moment in which we realise why she can’t or won’t speak: language is complaisant, language is content with description, and description puts everything, good and bad, to bed.The language teacher refuses ‘to obtain wisdom from suffering’. He nevertheless teaches Socrates’ pun on the near identical ... ”
