Flowers for Algernon
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Book Introduction
Charlie, a pure soul with an IQ of 68 who wanted to gain intelligence and become human.
If only someone had told him that 'being smart and having great knowledge isn't everything in life'
Could his life have become this miserable...?
Charlie, a 33-year-old bakery clerk who has lived a difficult life with the intelligence of a 7-year-old child.
He is a master of positivity who thinks that even though his colleagues openly mock him, 'they say things like that, but in reality, they really like him.'
He is a naive and innocent young man who is so hungry for human affection that he has no idea that he is like a mouse abandoned in a jungle teeming with wild beasts.
He believes that he must learn to write in order to communicate with the world, so he works during the day and learns to write at a center for adults with intellectual disabilities at night.
A prominent university professor offers to increase his intelligence through brain surgery.
A mother who refused to acknowledge her son's disability and even raised a knife at Charlie out of hatred and shame, and a father who was unable to protect him in the end.
Abandoned by his inhumane parents and thrown into a world filled with endless desires, Charlie knows that becoming smart, even if naive, is the only way for him to survive.
Charlie, who just wanted to be a human being to the world, readily accepts the professor's offer and willingly becomes the subject of his desires.
Charlie, who has invaded the realm of the gods alongside the self-absorbed elite, will complete happiness and freedom await him as he strives to move from darkness to light?
This book won the Hugo Award and Nebula Award, which are considered the Nobel Prizes of science fiction.
As soon as it was published in the United States, it caused a huge stir and became a steady seller, being published in 30 countries around the world, and an exclusive official translation was published by Golden Owl.
This novel, which has been adapted into films, dramas, plays, and musicals around the world, has been chosen by countless producers for over 50 years, becoming a classic that transcends time and space and has given great enlightenment and lingering feelings to human society.
It is also famous as a book of life selected by Bernard Werber, a novelist who is greatly loved in Korea.
If only someone had told him that 'being smart and having great knowledge isn't everything in life'
Could his life have become this miserable...?
Charlie, a 33-year-old bakery clerk who has lived a difficult life with the intelligence of a 7-year-old child.
He is a master of positivity who thinks that even though his colleagues openly mock him, 'they say things like that, but in reality, they really like him.'
He is a naive and innocent young man who is so hungry for human affection that he has no idea that he is like a mouse abandoned in a jungle teeming with wild beasts.
He believes that he must learn to write in order to communicate with the world, so he works during the day and learns to write at a center for adults with intellectual disabilities at night.
A prominent university professor offers to increase his intelligence through brain surgery.
A mother who refused to acknowledge her son's disability and even raised a knife at Charlie out of hatred and shame, and a father who was unable to protect him in the end.
Abandoned by his inhumane parents and thrown into a world filled with endless desires, Charlie knows that becoming smart, even if naive, is the only way for him to survive.
Charlie, who just wanted to be a human being to the world, readily accepts the professor's offer and willingly becomes the subject of his desires.
Charlie, who has invaded the realm of the gods alongside the self-absorbed elite, will complete happiness and freedom await him as he strives to move from darkness to light?
This book won the Hugo Award and Nebula Award, which are considered the Nobel Prizes of science fiction.
As soon as it was published in the United States, it caused a huge stir and became a steady seller, being published in 30 countries around the world, and an exclusive official translation was published by Golden Owl.
This novel, which has been adapted into films, dramas, plays, and musicals around the world, has been chosen by countless producers for over 50 years, becoming a classic that transcends time and space and has given great enlightenment and lingering feelings to human society.
It is also famous as a book of life selected by Bernard Werber, a novelist who is greatly loved in Korea.
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index
Epilogue
Characters
Part 1 Dream
Into the Maze
Touching things that shouldn't be touched...
Consciousness and Subconsciousness
Someone who believes in me
The unreturned Valentine's Day pendant
Part 2 Chaos
I can feel the hostility
Why am I hurt?
Now I have to love someone too
Boy in the Dark
The past seen through the bakery window
Part 3: Solitude
Why did I want to be punished?
The more I learn, the stranger it gets
My own space
What if he doesn't remember me?
Charlie was still with me
Part 4: Changes
Please respect my personality.
At the end of my maze...
No one spoke of hope
The most wonderful thing a human being can have
What happens to me now?
Part 5: Regression
We needed someone
The outer shell of existence
Paradise Lost
You had a smile
If there is any chance
Thinking of Korea, trapped in endless competition and excessive academic fever
Characters
Part 1 Dream
Into the Maze
Touching things that shouldn't be touched...
Consciousness and Subconsciousness
Someone who believes in me
The unreturned Valentine's Day pendant
Part 2 Chaos
I can feel the hostility
Why am I hurt?
Now I have to love someone too
Boy in the Dark
The past seen through the bakery window
Part 3: Solitude
Why did I want to be punished?
The more I learn, the stranger it gets
My own space
What if he doesn't remember me?
Charlie was still with me
Part 4: Changes
Please respect my personality.
At the end of my maze...
No one spoke of hope
The most wonderful thing a human being can have
What happens to me now?
Part 5: Regression
We needed someone
The outer shell of existence
Paradise Lost
You had a smile
If there is any chance
Thinking of Korea, trapped in endless competition and excessive academic fever
Detailed image
Into the book
I felt like the blood was rushing to my face and it was flushing.
The two people were laughing at me.
But then I realized what I had just said, and I understood why the two men were exchanging glances as they listened to my voice.
They weren't laughing.
They knew what was happening to me.
I was entering a new phase, and anger and suspicion were my first reactions to the world around me.
* * *
But along with freedom came sadness.
I wanted to share love with my teacher.
I also wanted to overcome my fear of sex, get married, have children, and settle down.
It's impossible now.
Even now, with an IQ of 185, I am as far removed from Mr. Kinnian as I was when I had an IQ of 70.
This time, they both know it.
* * *
Anyone who first meets me is often surprised by my uncommon desire to be smart, and I think I now know where that desire comes from.
Rose Gordon spent her entire life obsessed with it.
Charlie felt fear, guilt, and shame at the fact that he was mentally retarded.
I desperately hoped that I could do something to solve the problem.
Whose fault was it? Rose's? Or Matt's? These were the questions that followed.
Only after giving birth to Norma did Rose realize that she, too, could have a normal child.
After I realized that I was disabled, I stopped trying to change myself.
But I don't think I ever stopped wanting to be the smart child my mother wanted me to be, in order to receive her love.
One fun fact about Dr. Guarino.
I should be angry at him for what he did to me, for deceiving Rose and Matt, but somehow I can't.
Because since the first day, he has always made me happy.
He always gave me a pat on the shoulder, a smile, and words of encouragement, but I rarely had the opportunity to experience such things.
Dr. Guarino treated me as a human being at that time.
It may sound ungrateful, but one of the things that makes me angry here is the way they treat me like a guinea pig.
Professor Nemur kept mentioning that he was the one who made me who I am today, or that someday in the future there will be people like me, but they will be real humans.
How can I make him understand that Professor Nemur did not create me?
The two people were laughing at me.
But then I realized what I had just said, and I understood why the two men were exchanging glances as they listened to my voice.
They weren't laughing.
They knew what was happening to me.
I was entering a new phase, and anger and suspicion were my first reactions to the world around me.
* * *
But along with freedom came sadness.
I wanted to share love with my teacher.
I also wanted to overcome my fear of sex, get married, have children, and settle down.
It's impossible now.
Even now, with an IQ of 185, I am as far removed from Mr. Kinnian as I was when I had an IQ of 70.
This time, they both know it.
* * *
Anyone who first meets me is often surprised by my uncommon desire to be smart, and I think I now know where that desire comes from.
Rose Gordon spent her entire life obsessed with it.
Charlie felt fear, guilt, and shame at the fact that he was mentally retarded.
I desperately hoped that I could do something to solve the problem.
Whose fault was it? Rose's? Or Matt's? These were the questions that followed.
Only after giving birth to Norma did Rose realize that she, too, could have a normal child.
After I realized that I was disabled, I stopped trying to change myself.
But I don't think I ever stopped wanting to be the smart child my mother wanted me to be, in order to receive her love.
One fun fact about Dr. Guarino.
I should be angry at him for what he did to me, for deceiving Rose and Matt, but somehow I can't.
Because since the first day, he has always made me happy.
He always gave me a pat on the shoulder, a smile, and words of encouragement, but I rarely had the opportunity to experience such things.
Dr. Guarino treated me as a human being at that time.
It may sound ungrateful, but one of the things that makes me angry here is the way they treat me like a guinea pig.
Professor Nemur kept mentioning that he was the one who made me who I am today, or that someday in the future there will be people like me, but they will be real humans.
How can I make him understand that Professor Nemur did not create me?
--- pp.218~219
Publisher's Review
The only way to be happy is
Protecting myself as I am
Charlie, who suffered from an illness as a child, has intellectual developmental disabilities.
Charlie's mother did not accept his disability and gave him excessive treatment. When she gave birth to a normal daughter, she abandoned Charlie like a useless object.
Charlie went on the operating table with a single-minded dream of becoming a smart person and going back to his mother.
The surgery was a great success.
His intelligence develops day by day and he becomes a genius with an IQ of 180.
Charlie had no doubt that as he grew smarter and more knowledgeable, he would enjoy learning about the world and become more special to his friends.
However, his colleagues are afraid of Charlie, who has become a genius, and express an inferiority complex, completely rejecting him.
All Charlie is left with is betrayal from the scientists who treat him like a laboratory specimen, hostility toward those around him, and a sense of futility about life.
Charlie travels a long way to learn about the ways of the world and human psychology.
A book that Bernard Werber selected as the 'book of life'!
Bernard Werber said, “All good novels are stories about growth.
A coming-of-age novel is one in which readers accompany an ignorant protagonist as he gradually comes to understand the ways of the world.
In this novel, we empathize with Charlie and learn about intelligence, the possibilities it opens up, and the loneliness it can bring.
In this sense, “Flowers for Algernon” is a very exemplary coming-of-age novel, and in an interview recommending books for Korean readers, he was the only one to choose this novel, expressing his deep affection for it.
The act of realizing is actually the most creative thing for humans.
Readers of this novel will join Charlie, who finds himself completely alone in the face of the immense fate that has befallen him, spending sleepless nights and wandering the streets with empty eyes, and embark on a painful yet creative journey of enlightenment.
And when you finally realize that this novel is Daniel Keyes's flower of dedication to the happiness of humanity, you will feel a deep sense of comfort.
After its publication, the book won several awards, including the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, and met readers in 30 countries. In 1968, it was made into the American film "Charly," in which Cliff Robertson, who played Charlie, won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
In Korea, it was performed to great popularity as a musical, Mr. Mouse, starring Hong Gwang-ho, a box office hit in the musical world.
In Japan, it was first produced as a drama in 2002, and was remade in 2015, with top star Tomohisa Yamashita playing Charlie.
This novel, which has been adapted into films, dramas, plays, and musicals around the world, has been chosen by countless producers for over 50 years, becoming a classic that transcends time and space and has given great enlightenment and lingering feelings to human society.
In Korea, it was published as a book without a formal contract, but Golden Owl officially signed an exclusive licensing contract and published a translated version.
Protecting myself as I am
Charlie, who suffered from an illness as a child, has intellectual developmental disabilities.
Charlie's mother did not accept his disability and gave him excessive treatment. When she gave birth to a normal daughter, she abandoned Charlie like a useless object.
Charlie went on the operating table with a single-minded dream of becoming a smart person and going back to his mother.
The surgery was a great success.
His intelligence develops day by day and he becomes a genius with an IQ of 180.
Charlie had no doubt that as he grew smarter and more knowledgeable, he would enjoy learning about the world and become more special to his friends.
However, his colleagues are afraid of Charlie, who has become a genius, and express an inferiority complex, completely rejecting him.
All Charlie is left with is betrayal from the scientists who treat him like a laboratory specimen, hostility toward those around him, and a sense of futility about life.
Charlie travels a long way to learn about the ways of the world and human psychology.
A book that Bernard Werber selected as the 'book of life'!
Bernard Werber said, “All good novels are stories about growth.
A coming-of-age novel is one in which readers accompany an ignorant protagonist as he gradually comes to understand the ways of the world.
In this novel, we empathize with Charlie and learn about intelligence, the possibilities it opens up, and the loneliness it can bring.
In this sense, “Flowers for Algernon” is a very exemplary coming-of-age novel, and in an interview recommending books for Korean readers, he was the only one to choose this novel, expressing his deep affection for it.
The act of realizing is actually the most creative thing for humans.
Readers of this novel will join Charlie, who finds himself completely alone in the face of the immense fate that has befallen him, spending sleepless nights and wandering the streets with empty eyes, and embark on a painful yet creative journey of enlightenment.
And when you finally realize that this novel is Daniel Keyes's flower of dedication to the happiness of humanity, you will feel a deep sense of comfort.
After its publication, the book won several awards, including the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, and met readers in 30 countries. In 1968, it was made into the American film "Charly," in which Cliff Robertson, who played Charlie, won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
In Korea, it was performed to great popularity as a musical, Mr. Mouse, starring Hong Gwang-ho, a box office hit in the musical world.
In Japan, it was first produced as a drama in 2002, and was remade in 2015, with top star Tomohisa Yamashita playing Charlie.
This novel, which has been adapted into films, dramas, plays, and musicals around the world, has been chosen by countless producers for over 50 years, becoming a classic that transcends time and space and has given great enlightenment and lingering feelings to human society.
In Korea, it was published as a book without a formal contract, but Golden Owl officially signed an exclusive licensing contract and published a translated version.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: April 21, 2021
- Page count, weight, size: 448 pages | 510g | 148*210*20mm
- ISBN13: 9788960305762
- ISBN10: 8960305766
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