Han Kang's only novel that no one can read, "Only after I die..." [Now News]

Attention is focused on author Han Kang's unpublished novel, which will be released in 2114.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 many of his works are drawing attention, his unreleased works, which are now sealed due to a special project, are making headlines.

In 2019, Han Kang delivered his novel "Dear Son, My Beloved" to the Norwegian public art organization Future Library, which will be released in 2114.

Since 2014, Mirae Library has been conducting a long-term project to select "Writer of the Year" every year and collect their unpublished manuscripts one by one and publish them in 2114, when 100 works gather.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 named writer of the year in 2019, attended a manuscript delivery ceremony in the Forest of the Future Library outside Oslo and delivered the unpublished manuscript covered in white cloth to Katie Paterson, the Scottish artist who created the Future Library Project.

The title of the undisclosed plaintiff is "Dear Son," and the amount, content, and theme consciousness have not been disclosed.

At the time, Han Kang delivered the manuscript and explained, "It seems like my manuscript is marrying this forest, it is like a small funeral waiting to be reborn, and it is like a lullaby for a long sleep that gently touches the earth," and "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 in the hope that human history has not been a vision that has disappeared and 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."


Digital News Team Reporter | Lee Yu-na
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Edit Caption | Lee Mi-young

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