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Lädt ... The Book of Masksvon Sun-Won Hwang
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A young man’s preoccupation with the imagined thoughts of a girl in his building is played out in a series of violent outbursts on the street. A peculiar relationship develops between a woman in a coma and the woman with a troubled past hired to attend to her. A reluctant student activist is rescued from a fusillade at the barricades by a woman forced to work as a prostitute during the long absences of her husband. An elderly widower, retired from a career as a concert pianist because of paralysis in his arm, is set to marry a beautiful younger woman but becomes obsessed with a fish, the last of a rare breed, living in a bowl on his kitchen table. A little girl saves a boy from drowning, twisting their fates together ever after. The memory of an accident at a church bell-tower in a country village forty years before brings a man to the funeral of a boyhood friend. A man schedules his suicide for midnight down by the river but is granted a vision of annihilation postponed in the arms of a lactating prostitute.
I was caught off guard by Hwang’s talent for telling these stories with such unadorned style, as I was startled when the old pianist pulled the rare fish from the bowl and crushed it in his fist, but I came away with an appreciation for Hwang's art. ( )