Thursday, February 26, 2009

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself - Young-Ha Kim

This was a short sparsely written book. The narrator finds people who seem to have an inclination towards suicide and helps them accomplish the task. The story was told around the lives of brothers C and K. They meet strange, hopeless, attractive young women who eventually kill themselves. Sex is compulsive and void of any real passion.

It was an easy read and very compelling. Discussions of art and the business of capturing images - do we do this out of fear of the blank canvas, or to hide behind. All in all, not very uplifting stuff.

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