I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and … - Deborah Smith

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The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

Deborah Smith

I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and Deep Vellum in October and January respectively. A Greater Music is a semi-autobiographical book centred on a Korean writer moving to Berlin, learning to live and even write in a foreign language.

Book, Korean, Moving, Recitation, Respectively, Writing

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There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You’re free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you’re free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing.

Defined, Inspirational, Like, Ocean, Sink, Thinking

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

Believe, Wish

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

Getting Older, Look, Looks, People, Young

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali literature'. But though the (male) establishment used this label of erotica to dismiss her work, the sex scenes have exactly the same transgressive function as her use of chronology and narrative voice.

Males, Scenes, Sex, Voice, Writer

Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!

Excited, Failed, Fearing, Might, Should, Succeeded