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The Accusation

Autor Bandi Traducere de Deborah Smith
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 mar 2017

Atmosfera din The Accusation te trimite imediat cu gândul la Nothing To Envy de Barbara Demick, deși natura ficțională a textului de față marchează o voce proprie, mult mai intimă și viscerală. Dacă lucrarea lui Demick este o reconstrucție jurnalistică a unor destine reale, Bandi ne oferă ceva rar și periculos: o mărturie literară scrisă din interiorul „Regatului Pustnic”, în timp ce autorul încă trăiește acolo. Observăm în aceste șapte povestiri o demitizare a cotidianului nord-coreean, unde absurdul devine normă socială și unde loialitatea față de Partid se ciocnește brutal de instinctele umane fundamentale.

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Bandi, un nume care înseamnă „licurici”, reușește să lumineze colțurile întunecate ale unei societăți bazate pe propagandă. Fie că este vorba despre un supraveghetor de fabrică sfâșiat între prietenie și datoria politică, sau despre o mamă care încearcă să-și protejeze copilul de coșmarul vizual al portretelor dictatorilor, miza fiecărei pagini este supraviețuirea demnității. Spre deosebire de The Red Years, unde explorările sale poetice atingeau teme similare, acest volum de proză scurtă utilizează un realism tăios, aproape cinematografic, pentru a expune teatrul absurd al existenței sub totalitarism.

Ritmul este unul ponderat, lăsând spațiu cititorului să proceseze greutatea fiecărei situații. Nu este doar o critică politică, ci o explorare profundă a modului în care limbajul și gândirea pot rămâne libere chiar și într-un sistem care încearcă să le anihileze. Traducerea semnată de Deborah Smith păstrează o claritate sobră, permițând forței brute a evenimentelor să iasă la suprafață fără înflorituri inutile.

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ISBN-13: 9780802126207
ISBN-10: 0802126200
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 146 x 218 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Grove Atlantic

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Recomandăm The Accusation celor care doresc să înțeleagă realitatea umană din spatele titlurilor de știri despre Coreea de Nord. Este o lectură esențială pentru pasionații de literatură disidentă, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra rezilienței spiritului uman. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care frica și speranța coexistă într-un regim totalitar, totul prin lentila unui scriitor care și-a riscat viața pentru ca aceste povești să fie auzite.


Despre autor

Bandi este pseudonimul unui scriitor nord-coreean a cărui identitate rămâne protejată pentru a-i asigura siguranța, acesta locuind în continuare în țara sa natală. Membru al asociației scriitorilor oficiali din Coreea de Nord, el a început să scrie în secret aceste povestiri de revoltă în anii '80. Manuscrisele au fost scoase clandestin din țară cu ajutorul unor rude și susținători, transformându-l pe Bandi într-una dintre cele mai importante și curajoase voci disidente ale secolului XXI. Opera sa, care include și volumul de poezii The Red Years, reprezintă un act de rezistență literară fără precedent.


Descriere scurtă

With rights sold in fifteen territories and already a publishing phenomenon in France and South Korea, The Accusation is a deeply moving and eye-opening piece of fiction that exposes the truth of the North Korean regime. Set during the period of Kim Jong-Il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation throw light on different aspects of life in North Korea, and as a whole form a vivid and frightening portrait of what it means to live in this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships.

One story, "The Magic Elm", tells the tale of a war hero and former ardent communist who plants an elm tree in his back garden to commemorate one of his brothers-in-arms. A family friend who works at a nearby factory must decide whether he will intercede on this man's behalf when the tree is to be cut down to make way for a new power line and the war hero is prepared to defend it with his life. In another story, "The Town of Specters", a Pyongyang mother's young son misbehaves during a party rally, crying out when he sees a portrait of Karl Marx, whom he thinks is a monster of Korean myth known as the Eobi. A consequent visit from a party official throws the family into great peril. Other stories deal with a mother's attempts to feed her husband during the worst years of a famine and a woman in a perilous situation who meets the Dear Leader himself. As a whole, The Accusation is a powerful portrait of what it means to live in a completely closed-off society, and a heartbreaking yet hopeful portrayal of the humanity that persists even in such dire circumstances.

Recenzii

“Dissident tales from pseudonymous author Bandi, still living in the country . . . very rare fiction to emerge from the secretive dictatorship . . . on its way to becoming an international literary sensation.”—Alison Flood, Guardian

“Plunges us into the daily life of families in North Korea. These stories are the cry of a man suffocated by totalitarianism. These are also the cry of an entire people who have been broken under the yoke of North Korean communism . . . The author makes use of storytelling, poetry, humor, and even the burlesque to aid his condemnation of these unbearable injustices. The writing is simple, humble, which gives it its beauty. The seven novellas shine with humanity and tenderness.”Aleteia

“This collection of novellas that the author managed to extract from his country is of incredible value . . . The classic construction reminds us of Gogol and Chekhov, and for their taste for absurdist satire, Ionesco and Bulgakov.”Books Magazine

“Describes in very impressionistic, subtle, almost veiled tones, if I may, the daily life of a dictatorship . . . The book gives a human face, gives stories and images, to the sufferings of North Koreans . . . I was almost groggy by the time I finished reading, reminding myself of just how lucky I am to live in a democracy . . . I thought of Orwell and Kafka but realized that the country described here really exists and that there are people who are living there, perhaps not even knowing that a different kind of life is possible.”L’express

“Bandi, a pseudonym that means “firefly”, has achieved the unthinkable – offering a testimony on the dictatorial regime of North Korea while remaining in situ . . . In the same way as the works of Solzhenitsyn in their time, Bandi’s writing reminds us of the perennial necessity of battling censorship, whatever the cost.”L’amour des livres

“This author is completely unknown and would like to stay that way. He continues to live in a country that is held fast by an iron fist, putting his life at risk by writing. He describes, not without humor, the ordinary life of this dictatorship, the extreme misery there, and the surveillance networks that have been put in place by the regime, which make everyone into a potential spy or informant.”Mag Dimanche

“Even if one did not know anything about the writer or the way the manuscript was smuggled out of the country, it would not diminish the fact that the force of this collection of novellas evokes the classics of world literature about totalitarianism.”L’ours

“A message in a bottle that is so precious that we should all reach out to grab it and better understand the tragedy of the last Marxist regime in the world.”Le Revenu

“Stories of simple people that are humiliated and beaten down for absurd reasons, watched over by grotesque henchmen and toadying neighbors, arrested and punished by a dictatorship that has held the country under its heel for six decades. A book to burst the silence.”La Vie

“This rare collection offers seven moving novellas, snapshots of a country where nothing normal ever leaks out . . . A far cry from the grandiloquent, ridiculous images that are thrown out by the Kim Jong-Un regime, The Accusation offers the opportunity to discover a moving portrait of a secret country, a forgotten land where humanity only asks to try to triumph.”Lire

“No one could imagine that it could be at all comical to live in a dictatorship, but in describing the limitless absurdity of the system, Bandi sometimes makes the reader give out a nervous laugh . . . A fragile hint of light in a country that confuses democracy with obscurantism.”L’Alsace

“Each of these stories shows a different aspect of the remorseless dictatorship . . . With a fierce sense of irony and a deeply dark humor, Bandi denounces totalitarianism, the divisions in North Korean society, and the absurdity and corruption of the one party system.”La Grande Parade

“Stories written with a great humanity, the work of a true writer.”—Lecturama.fr

“The appearance of this collection of seven novellas is a true publishing event.”Livres Hebdo

Notă biografică

"Bandi", which means "firefly" in Korean, is a pseudonym for a writer who is still living in his homeland of North Korea, and who wrote these stories in secret. The Accusation is his only published book to date.