Festival d’Avignon : l’autrice coréenne Han Kang, la mémoire de la violence au cœur

Han Kang, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, explores trauma and memory in her novel Impossibles adieux, set on Jeju Island in South Korea. The narrative follows Gyeongha, a writer visiting the island where thousands of civilians were massacred, blurring boundaries between present and past, reality and dream, life and death. The work engages with historical violence and collective memory through a poetic, speculative lens that interrogates how literary practice resists acts of destruction. Han Kang’s Nobel acceptance emphasized literature’s opposition to life-destroying forces, positioning her work within a critical framework addressing post-traumatic aesthetics and the politics of remembrance, particularly relevant to dark alternative intellectual discourse on violence, haunting, and cultural memory.

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