Bi-lingual Modern series features bilingual editions of texts by the most interesting contemporary authors from South Korea. The editors emphasize that the selection of the best stories is crucial for them – but everything in these books is enjoyable: careful editing, aesthetics or an interesting study in the form of a commentary/essay offered after the main text.
The Canning Factory by Pyun Hye-Young, who is also the author of the sensational The Hole (Dół), begins like a detective story. An supervisor goes missing at a canned food factory. The gloomy circumstances and dense atmosphere of a noir novel, however, do not lead to an investigation that will unravel the mystery of his disappearance. Instead, we get an atmospheric story about the factory itself and its employees, who pack fish, meat, vegetables and fruit into cans every day. In Pyun Hye-Young work, the factory workers themselves are like canned foreign bodies, in hibernation until someone opens the lid again and time finally starts moving.
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