Murderer's Memory Method
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Winner of the 2020 German Mystery Literature Award International Category
Winner of the 2020 German Independent Publishers Literary Award
Selected as the best German mystery novel of 2020
2018 Japan Translation Award Winner
Dense composition and bold writing style,
With a weighty theme and wit
The best psychological thriller that captivated readers around the world, "The Murderer's Memory"
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Kim Young-ha's debut, the fourth work in the newly released 'Bokbokseoga_Kim Young-ha_Novels' series and the author's seventh full-length novel, 'The Murderer's Memory', has been reprinted 56 times since its first edition was published by Munhakdongne in 2013 and has been much loved and has been translated into many countries, receiving rave reviews.
Starting with winning the 2018 Japan Translation Award, it has also achieved the feat of being selected as the best mystery novel in Germany and winning the German Independent Publisher Literature Award.
And in December 2020, he won the Deutscher Krimipreis, Germany's most prestigious mystery literature award, demonstrating the power of Kim Young-ha's thriller that transcends language barriers.
Kim Byung-soo, a serial killer struggling with his fading memory due to Alzheimer's disease, records his every move and keeps a diary of his daily activities to hold on to his memories.
The novel is composed of a series of short essays written by the protagonist in a diary format.
The reading experience of discovering the hidden meaning in sentences brimming with paradox and wit even feels like reading a poem.
In order to more effectively express the disjointed memories and the abrupt narrative, the editing was done with a lot of margins.
Additionally, we have included a new analysis of the work by literary critic Ryu Bo-seon, who focuses on the work's deep psychological structure and ethical implications, and we have also included excerpts from reviews that have poured in since the book was published in over a dozen countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, over the past seven years.
Winner of the 2020 German Independent Publishers Literary Award
Selected as the best German mystery novel of 2020
2018 Japan Translation Award Winner
Dense composition and bold writing style,
With a weighty theme and wit
The best psychological thriller that captivated readers around the world, "The Murderer's Memory"
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Kim Young-ha's debut, the fourth work in the newly released 'Bokbokseoga_Kim Young-ha_Novels' series and the author's seventh full-length novel, 'The Murderer's Memory', has been reprinted 56 times since its first edition was published by Munhakdongne in 2013 and has been much loved and has been translated into many countries, receiving rave reviews.
Starting with winning the 2018 Japan Translation Award, it has also achieved the feat of being selected as the best mystery novel in Germany and winning the German Independent Publisher Literature Award.
And in December 2020, he won the Deutscher Krimipreis, Germany's most prestigious mystery literature award, demonstrating the power of Kim Young-ha's thriller that transcends language barriers.
Kim Byung-soo, a serial killer struggling with his fading memory due to Alzheimer's disease, records his every move and keeps a diary of his daily activities to hold on to his memories.
The novel is composed of a series of short essays written by the protagonist in a diary format.
The reading experience of discovering the hidden meaning in sentences brimming with paradox and wit even feels like reading a poem.
In order to more effectively express the disjointed memories and the abrupt narrative, the editing was done with a lot of margins.
Additionally, we have included a new analysis of the work by literary critic Ryu Bo-seon, who focuses on the work's deep psychological structure and ethical implications, and we have also included excerpts from reviews that have poured in since the book was published in over a dozen countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, over the past seven years.
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Murderer's Memory Method
Work Review | Ryu Bo-seon (Literary Critic)
Between shame and guilt
Or the ethics of our time
First edition author's note
This novel is my novel
Work Review | Ryu Bo-seon (Literary Critic)
Between shame and guilt
Or the ethics of our time
First edition author's note
This novel is my novel
Into the book
Who was it? A Spanish, or maybe Argentine writer.
I can't remember the author's name anymore.
Anyway, there is a story like this in someone's novel.
An old writer takes a walk along the river and meets a young man, who talks to him on a bench.
You realize it later.
That young man I met by the river was none other than myself.
If I met my younger self like that, would I recognize him?
--- p.29
The feeling of writing poetry that no one reads is no different from the feeling of committing murder that no one can tell anyone about.
--- p.53
Death may be a drink we take to forget the trivial drinking party called life.
--- p.73
“How did you meet Park Joo-tae?” I asked Eun-hee while eating breakfast.
“By chance.
“It was really coincidental,” said Eun-hee.
The beginning of wisdom is not to believe the word 'coincidence' that people use as a habit.
--- p.87
I wasn't good at anything.
He was good at only one thing, but it was something he couldn't boast about to anyone.
How many people go to their graves with a pride they can't tell anyone?
--- p.153
They try to preserve the past vividly while stubbornly not recording the future.
It feels as if I am being warned again and again that there is no future for me.
But the more I think about it, it seems like if there is no future, the past would have no meaning either.
--- p.157
Oedipus progressed from ignorance to oblivion, and from oblivion to destruction.
I'm exactly the opposite.
From destruction to oblivion, from oblivion to ignorance, it will pass into a state of pure ignorance.
--- p.174~175
“It is not evil that is scary.
It's time.
“No one can beat that.”
I can't remember the author's name anymore.
Anyway, there is a story like this in someone's novel.
An old writer takes a walk along the river and meets a young man, who talks to him on a bench.
You realize it later.
That young man I met by the river was none other than myself.
If I met my younger self like that, would I recognize him?
--- p.29
The feeling of writing poetry that no one reads is no different from the feeling of committing murder that no one can tell anyone about.
--- p.53
Death may be a drink we take to forget the trivial drinking party called life.
--- p.73
“How did you meet Park Joo-tae?” I asked Eun-hee while eating breakfast.
“By chance.
“It was really coincidental,” said Eun-hee.
The beginning of wisdom is not to believe the word 'coincidence' that people use as a habit.
--- p.87
I wasn't good at anything.
He was good at only one thing, but it was something he couldn't boast about to anyone.
How many people go to their graves with a pride they can't tell anyone?
--- p.153
They try to preserve the past vividly while stubbornly not recording the future.
It feels as if I am being warned again and again that there is no future for me.
But the more I think about it, it seems like if there is no future, the past would have no meaning either.
--- p.157
Oedipus progressed from ignorance to oblivion, and from oblivion to destruction.
I'm exactly the opposite.
From destruction to oblivion, from oblivion to ignorance, it will pass into a state of pure ignorance.
--- p.174~175
“It is not evil that is scary.
It's time.
“No one can beat that.”
--- p.195
Publisher's Review
“A perfect example of an original work with great characters, psychological insight and breathtaking storytelling, while also being a brilliant piece of social commentary.” _NB Magazine, UK
Dark reflections on good and evil, life and death, reality and illusion, sin and forgiveness.
The motif of the 'murderer with Alzheimer's' is the most important device among the many layers of irony in this novel.
Kim Byung-soo, the villain who has carelessly taken the lives of countless others, struggles to protect his memories and his daughter, but is eventually slowly defeated by nothing but time.
“It is not evil that is scary.
It's time.
“No one can beat that.” Even psychopaths who don’t feel even a shred of guilt are helpless in the face of old age and death.
Forgetting one's own misdeeds and "passing into a state of pure ignorance" seems like a blessing to him at first glance.
But he tells us that life as a being who is completely oblivious is a disaster.
“People don’t know.
“That I am being punished right now.” This irony that Kim Byung-soo faces makes him ponder the inevitability of death and certain aspects of life that no one can predict or do anything about.
This novel, with its sophisticated plot and weighty, sharp insights into memory and extinction, leaves a deep impression as it achieves “a great twist or a perfect betrayal” (Ryu Bo-seon).
A narrative with no exit, free from a clear good and evil structure, an ambiguous boundary between fiction and fact, yet the narrator's intense monologue, the only thing we can rely on, and the sharp sentences that disrupt conventional thinking, clearly show why "Memoir of a Murderer" has been considered the most original novel among Kim Young-ha's works.
Dark reflections on good and evil, life and death, reality and illusion, sin and forgiveness.
The motif of the 'murderer with Alzheimer's' is the most important device among the many layers of irony in this novel.
Kim Byung-soo, the villain who has carelessly taken the lives of countless others, struggles to protect his memories and his daughter, but is eventually slowly defeated by nothing but time.
“It is not evil that is scary.
It's time.
“No one can beat that.” Even psychopaths who don’t feel even a shred of guilt are helpless in the face of old age and death.
Forgetting one's own misdeeds and "passing into a state of pure ignorance" seems like a blessing to him at first glance.
But he tells us that life as a being who is completely oblivious is a disaster.
“People don’t know.
“That I am being punished right now.” This irony that Kim Byung-soo faces makes him ponder the inevitability of death and certain aspects of life that no one can predict or do anything about.
This novel, with its sophisticated plot and weighty, sharp insights into memory and extinction, leaves a deep impression as it achieves “a great twist or a perfect betrayal” (Ryu Bo-seon).
A narrative with no exit, free from a clear good and evil structure, an ambiguous boundary between fiction and fact, yet the narrator's intense monologue, the only thing we can rely on, and the sharp sentences that disrupt conventional thinking, clearly show why "Memoir of a Murderer" has been considered the most original novel among Kim Young-ha's works.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of publication: August 28, 2020
- Page count, weight, size: 224 pages | 246g | 128*198*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791197021688
- ISBN10: 119702168X
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