Violation is, objectively, one of the key components in meat processing, a euphemistic term, to be sure, that’s code for, ironically, “bloodlessly killing animals” for human consumption. And it is this form of trespassing upon the corporeal body that darkly colors the vast majority of Han Kang’s first novel to be translated into English, The Vegetarian. The glib simplicity of the title is almost jarring … Continue reading The Stuff That Dreams Are Made of Is Not Meat in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian