I'm Waiting for You
Autor Kim Bo-Youngen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 apr 2022
Recomandăm acest volum cititorilor care caută un science fiction cerebral, capabil să transforme legile fizicii în metafore emoționale profunde. I'm Waiting For You nu este doar o culegere de povestiri, ci o explorare cosmogonică a modului în care timpul și conștiința modelează legăturile umane. Notăm cu interes modul în care Kim Bo-Young utilizează rigurozitatea științifică a relativității pentru a construi o epopee a dorului: doi logodnici călătoresc spre colțuri opuse ale galaxiei, sperând că salturile temporale îi vor aduce înapoi pe Pământ în același moment, însă variabilele neprevăzute îi aruncă în epoci diferite, transformând nunta lor într-o așteptare seculară. Remarcăm o construcție a lumii care pendulează între tehnologia spațială și metafizică. În a doua parte a volumului, descoperim o perspectivă fascinantă asupra creației, unde entități cvasi-divine gestionează realitatea ca pe un experiment al voinței, iar orice urmă de rebeliune umană este tratată ca o anomalie biologică. Sistemul magic, dacă îl putem numi astfel, rezidă în capacitatea acestor ființe de a percepe întreaga materie — de la praf la oameni — ca fiind parte din propriul lor corp. În tradiția lui Ted Chiang și a volumului său Exhalation, acest roman reimaginează genul speculativ nu prin spectacol vizual, ci prin experimente de gândire care forțează limitele identității. Acolo unde Chiang disecă mecanica universului, Kim Bo-Young adaugă o notă de lirism coreean, transformând dilemele existențiale în experiențe aproape cinematografice, amintind de structurile stratificate din „Inception”. Este o lectură densă, cu un ritm care cere reflecție, oferind un echilibru rar între rigoarea teoretică și fragilitatea emoției umane.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0062951475
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 132 x 199 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Harpercollins
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De ce să citești această carte
Pentru cei care au apreciat If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light de Kim Choyeop, acest volum oferă o nouă perspectivă asupra valului de science fiction sud-coreean. Veți câștiga o înțelegere mai profundă a modului în care timpul și spațiul pot deveni bariere sau punți pentru sentimentele umane. Este o carte pentru visătorii care vor să înțeleagă legătura dintre astrofizică și destinul individual.
Despre autor
Kim Bo-Young este una dintre cele mai influente voci ale literaturii speculative din Coreea de Sud. Recunoscută ca o pionieră care a deschis drumul pentru noul val de autori coreeni, ea a servit drept consultant pentru scenariul filmului „Snowpiercer” regizat de Bong Joon-ho. Opera sa se distinge prin împletirea mitologiei cu știința dură și prin chestionarea structurilor sociale prin lentila post-umanismului. Traducerea lucrărilor sale în limba engleză marchează un moment important pentru accesibilitatea viziunii sale unice asupra viitorului și a condiției umane în mediul internațional.
Descriere scurtă
In this mind-expanding work of speculative fiction, available in English for the first time, one of South Korea’s most treasured writers explores the driving forces of humanity—love, hope, creation, destruction, and the very meaning of existence—in two pairs of thematically interconnected stories.
Two worlds, four stories, infinite possibilities
In “I’m Waiting for You” and “On My Way,” an engaged couple coordinate their separate missions to distant corners of the galaxy to ensure—through relativity—they can arrive back on Earth simultaneously to make it down the aisle. But small incidents wreak havoc on space and time, driving their wedding date further away. As centuries on Earth pass and the land and climate change, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together. In two separate yet linked stories, Kim Bo-Young cleverly demonstrate the idea love that is timeless and hope springs eternal, despite seemingly insurmountable challenges and the deepest despair.
In “The Prophet of Corruption” and “That One Life,” humanity is viewed through the eyes of its creators: godlike beings for which everything on Earth—from the richest woman to a speck of dirt—is an extension of their will. When one of the creations questions the righteousness of this arrangement, it is deemed a perversion—a disease—that must be excised and cured. Yet the Prophet Naban, whose “child” is rebelling, isn’t sure the rebellion is bad. What if that which is considered criminal is instead the natural order—and those who condemn it corrupt? Exploring the dichotomy between the philosophical and the corporeal, Kim ponders the fate of free-will, as she considers the most basic of questions: who am I?
Recenzii
“In four paired short stories, Korean science-fiction doyenne Kim imagines the vanishingly distant future….Playing with notions of immortality and toying with improbable transgressions of the laws of physics, Kim delivers a suite of stories that is at once lyrical and full of foreboding, keeping dramatic tensions tight among poetic evocations of a home planet that is ‘our hall of learning, our cradle of experience, our short-term interactive training ground,’ if one we have also destroyed. Much of the best science fiction is coming from East Asia, and Kim’s work ranks high in that emerging tradition.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"This is a book as much about the process of translation as it is about science fiction, Buddhism and how to live among people...The purpose of the book is to showcase not so much a collection of narratives but the love and respect between several people working together, sharing their minds across languages and distance to beautiful, dizzying effect."
— New York Times
"Bold, inventive, and utterly unforgettable, Bo-Young's stories are designed to take your breath away." — Popsugar
"The epistolary nature of the lovers’ story gives readers a chance to empathize with the characters; to feel the dilemmas, the triumphs, and the lows of the two lovers. The straightforward narrative of the gods’ featurette is a surreal swirl of ideas that weaves the reader through the tale...This is thought-provoking science fiction that will leave readers musing long after the book is finished." — Library Journal
"A beautiful, earnest exploration of the mind, body, and spirit across time and space. These stories will break your heart, then lovingly knit it back together again." — Marina Lostetter, author of the Noumenon trilogy
“Where does humanity end and the universe begin? What are the limits of love and hope? What is the difference between creation and destruction? These are big questions, but Bo-Young’s attempt to bring shape to them in these stories is stunning, humbling and utterly beautiful.” — BookPage
“I don’t know what went wrong, or when it started, but everything’s a mess. In I’m Waiting for You and Other Stories Kim Bo-Young has perfectly captured the longing and isolation of our contemporary moment, but depicted against landscapes and realms that are utterly fresh. With stories that manage to present fantastical realities, ask philosophical questions, and weave exciting plots, Kim Bo-Young has given us a timely reminder that longing and heartbreak can be as infinite as the universe, but also just as lovely." — Micaiah Johnson, author of The Space Between Worlds
"This translation will help fill in some of the gaps in the availability of Korean sf in English, as well as please readers who enjoy lyrical, philosophical sf stories." — Booklist
Descriere
THE TIMES SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH
‘Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art … powerful and graceful’ – Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director of Parasite
’Dazzling’ – The Times
A stunning collection of short fiction by one of South Korea’s most treasured writers, available in English for the first time.
In the title story, an engaged couple working in distant corners of the galaxy plan to arrive on Earth simultaneously and walk down the aisle together. But small incidents wreak havoc on their vast journeys, pushing the date of their wedding far into the future. As centuries pass on Earth and the land and climate change, one thing is constant: the desire of the lovers to be together.
Through two pairs of interlinked stories stories, Kim explores the driving forces of humanity – love, hope, creation, destruction, and the very meaning of existence.
Notă biografică
Kim Bo-young is one of Korea's most unique and important authors. Her first published work of fiction, a novella titled 'The Experience of Touch', unanimously won the award for the best novella at the Korean Science & Technology Creative Writing Awards in 2004. In 2010 she published a two-volume collection of short stories, The Story Goes That Far and An Evolutionary Myth. 2013 saw the publication of her first novel, The Seven Executioners, which won the South Korean SF Award. Kim's work enjoys widespread popularity in Korea and has been praised by award-winning film directors Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. She acted as a script advisor for Bong's 2013 film Snowpiercer.