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Attention is focused on the unpublished novel by author Han Kang, which will be released in 2114.
On the 10th, the Swedish Academy selected Han Kang as the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, and while several of his works are drawing attention, his now-sealed unreleased works are making headlines due to a special project.
In 2019, Han Kang delivered a novel "Dear Son, My Beloved" to the Norwegian public art organization Future Library, which will be released in 2114.
Since 2014, Future Library has been conducting a long-term project to select the "Writer of the Year" every year and collect their unpublished manuscripts one by one and publish them in 2114, when 100 works gather. The manuscript will be kept in the Oslo Library, and the book will be published using 1,000 trees planted in the woods outside Oslo for 100 years in 2114.
Han Kang, who was selected as 2019's author of the year, attended a manuscript delivery ceremony held in the Forest of the Future Library outside Oslo and delivered an unpublished manuscript covered in white cloth to Scottish artist Katie Paterson, who created the Future Library Project.
The title of the undisclosed manuscript is "Dear Son." The amount, content, and theme consciousness were not disclosed.
At the time, Han Kang delivered the manuscript and explained, "It's like my manuscript is marrying this forest, it's like a small funeral waiting to be reborn, and it's like a lullaby for a long sleep that gently touches the earth," adding, "The manuscript was also wrapped in white fabric because white fabric was used for newborns in Korea."
"As soon as you write the first sentence, you have to believe in the world 100 years later." We must believe that human history has not been a vision that has disappeared, and that there is insufficient evidence that the Earth has not been a tomb or ruin, he said. "This project is also a 100-year prayer to try to do something in uncertainty."
As Han Kang's unreleased manuscript "Dear Son" was re-examined, Internet users responded curiously, such as "author Han Kang, who will remain as a name in 100 years" and "I'm so curious about the content."
Reporter Lee Yu Na from Digital News Team.
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On the 10th, the Swedish Academy selected Han Kang as the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, and while several of his works are drawing attention, his now-sealed unreleased works are making headlines due to a special project.
In 2019, Han Kang delivered a novel "Dear Son, My Beloved" to the Norwegian public art organization Future Library, which will be released in 2114.
Since 2014, Future Library has been conducting a long-term project to select the "Writer of the Year" every year and collect their unpublished manuscripts one by one and publish them in 2114, when 100 works gather. The manuscript will be kept in the Oslo Library, and the book will be published using 1,000 trees planted in the woods outside Oslo for 100 years in 2114.
Han Kang, who was selected as 2019's author of the year, attended a manuscript delivery ceremony held in the Forest of the Future Library outside Oslo and delivered an unpublished manuscript covered in white cloth to Scottish artist Katie Paterson, who created the Future Library Project.
The title of the undisclosed manuscript is "Dear Son." The amount, content, and theme consciousness were not disclosed.
At the time, Han Kang delivered the manuscript and explained, "It's like my manuscript is marrying this forest, it's like a small funeral waiting to be reborn, and it's like a lullaby for a long sleep that gently touches the earth," adding, "The manuscript was also wrapped in white fabric because white fabric was used for newborns in Korea."
"As soon as you write the first sentence, you have to believe in the world 100 years later." We must believe that human history has not been a vision that has disappeared, and that there is insufficient evidence that the Earth has not been a tomb or ruin, he said. "This project is also a 100-year prayer to try to do something in uncertainty."
As Han Kang's unreleased manuscript "Dear Son" was re-examined, Internet users responded curiously, such as "author Han Kang, who will remain as a name in 100 years" and "I'm so curious about the content."
Reporter Lee Yu Na from Digital News Team.
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