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...Take the first section, which comprises 13 brief stories written while Hwang was a student in Tokyo, and first published as a single book, Hwang Sun Won Tanpyonjip (literally, "Hwang Sun Won Story Collection"), in Korea in 1940. In it there are upheavals of every kind: spiritual, geological, corporeal, romantic, ethical, political. An earthquake rocks the Japanese capital, while beggars shiver in the cold. Anticipatory lovers throb with desire in the shadowed alleyways of "Trumpet Shells." In "The Offering," a young boy who kills an old red rooster for no good reason is wracked by guilt and fevers. In "Scarecrow...
...That Hwang can rotate a small roster of stock characters - swarthy, oppressed sharecroppers, damsels in distress, prodigal sons - throughout the stories yet keep them fresh is a sign of his mastery. The title story of Lost Souls is a timeless romance hinged on filial impiety. From the book's less topical third section, written just after the Korean War's end, it's reminiscent of the classic tale of Chunhyang, often likened to a Korean Juliet, that's still a pansori and cinema standard. (Im Kwon Taek's 2000 film version was a blockbuster.) But the ending of Hwang...
Lately we've been fighting off an infestation of angels. Swarms of these winged pests have invaded the movie Legion, the video game Bayonetta and the TV series Supernatural, and now they've turned up in a book called Angelology by Danielle Trussoni. They're like cicadas. And these aren't the good kind of angel either. They're the fallen kind...
...other change was Alice's age. In the book she is "seven-and-a-half, exactly"; here she's 19 and meant to wed a pruny nobleman. It's not a crime for a film to turn a girl into a young lady: Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz was 16, about twice the age of the book's Dorothy. And upping Alice's age removes the whisper of pedophilia that the 20th century applied to the love that Charles Dodgson, the Oxford math professor who was the real Lewis Carroll, lavished on the real Alice Liddell...
...meantime, there's always the computer lab (if you're reading this, you're probably already there). Or, perhaps, take this time to cuddle up with a good book, catch up on "Lost," or sing in the rain...