Tengo derecho a destruirme

A ghostly and nameless storyteller stalks Seoul's lost victims, suggesting suicide as the only consolation. Under the neon lights of the city, his story intersects with that of two brothers, C and K, in love with the same woman and struggling to find themselves in a frantic and atomized world. With a style close to reverie that contrasts with images of cinematographic power, I have the right to destroy myself, published in 1996, is a dark parable about contemporary oriental life that anticipated the economic and social crisis that broke out a year later. Like Ry? Murakami and Bret Easton Ellis, Kim Young-ha dissects the disenchantment of the youth of their country and their way of combating existential boredom. Cars hurtling down the highway, desperate sex, the internationalization of the art world and its growing frivolity come together in this cult book of recent South Korean literature that marked a whole generation of young people.