Jang Jung-il: When Adam Opens His Eyes Translated by Hwang Sun-ae and Horace Jeffery Hodges Dalkey Archive 2013, 126 pp Originally published as 아담이 눈뜰 때, Kimyeongsa, Seoul, 1990 Deleuze, Lacan, Bataille… if you’re reading a text that references any of those thinkers, you’re probably reading a rather turgid book on postcolonial or film studies, … [Read More]
Author: Jang Jung-il (장정일 1962-)
Selected publications by Jang Jung-il
- When Adam Opens His Eyes (아담이 눈뜰 때, 1990) tr Horace Jeffery Hodges, Hwang Sun-ae, Dalkey Archive 2013
Lies (거짓말, 1999) review: exploring the boundaries of consent and control
An affair between an 18-year-old girl and a married older man escalates into increasingly extreme sexual territory. Uncomfortably explicit, Lies mixes voyeuristic techniques and discomforting narrative with moments of confrontational humour and fragments of meta-cinema to produce a film that is both difficult to watch and hard to turn away from. [Read More]