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gay man who owns a record store and gains the turntable. In this process of replacing and exchanging desires, his friend Hyeon-jae kills himself. In shock, the narrator realizes that he has to get away from 'the worship of objects in the modern world' and the desires of 'the false paradise.' He gives up college, buys the typewriter with his tuition fee, and starts to write sentences about 'the real paradise.'
53:"Adam" is the nickname of the novel's narrator and protagonist, the 19-year-old boy. It signifies his ignorant and immature state, like Adam of the Bible when he is thrown out of the Garden of Eden. The phrase "open his eyes" means the process of the boy entering into and learning about the world, becoming an adult. The title
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The narrator considers himself "Adam who opened his eyes in the false paradise," refuses to grow up, and instead, immerses himself in art. At the end, he chooses writing, as a way of standing against this corrupt world. The typewriter, unlike the book of Munch's paintings and turntable, is something
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At the end of the novel, the main character gives up college. Coming-of-age stories mostly end with their protagonists adapting to the world after wandering away from their life. On the contrary, in this novel, he puts off the task of adapting to the world, refuses to grow up, and decides to remain
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describes how the main character pays the price for the three things he wants to have, the typewriter, the book of Munch's paintings, and the turntable, and becomes an adult. He poses as a nude model in front of a middle-aged woman painter and acquires the book of paintings; gets anally raped by a
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Japanese literary journal
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The novel is viewed as the work that led the beginning of the Korean literature of the 1990s. It is set in 1988 when the Seoul
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The protagonist commercializes his body to get what he wants. The woman painter claims that, in this world where love is impossible, sex is "the only alternative." The owner of the record store attempts to dominate him with money and violence. All the characters of this novel, including the
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published an editorial, highly acclaiming Jang Jung-il as "the author who distinctively embodies the human experience of the consumerist society and represents the postmodernist literature." Later, he once again stood in the middle of a great controversy as his novel
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literature of the 1990s started with the deconstruction of the established literary traditions and rules and the representation of the new generation's experiences and sentiments. And it was given the 'new' name, a postmodernism that has 'belatedly' arrived.
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