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Agota Christoph: illiteracy

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The novel of Agota Christophe, which the novelist meets with the translation of Chongsulin, is illiterate. Born in a rural village in Hungary in 1935, and passing the war of World War II, he witnessed his mother country being invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union, and it was a self-conspiracy about the language of the author who had spent his childhood in the border towns where languages intersected. The author brings back to life the close memories that were lost in the work, as if with his native Hungarian language, the woman and her foreign foreigner who had to hide the history of the 20th century. While showing how he has been persistent in writing to escape illiteracy, it is also clear that he will never be able to escape it.

Korean title: 문맹

Korean author: 아고타 크리스토프

Korean publisher: 한겨레출판

ISBN-13: 9791160401608

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AN*****
August 8, 2025

It's a very chosen book at a reading session.

JA****
October 28, 2024

It's a work of dealing with the identity of language through childhood experience in the border towns where languages intersect in the context of World War II.

HO******
December 4, 2022

Agota Cristov, who loved "the three lies of existence" and was ignorant of her novel's history of the Austrian Hunger which was rooted in its background and roots, shows a big picture of her book, The Literacy, where all puzzles move into their places and are shown as her world.

EY******
September 23, 2018

The writer, who grew up in Hungary, escapes the Communistized country of Soviet invasion and settles in Gonshatel in Switzerland. Hungarian was able to read and write in the language at age four, but in Switzerland, where it has settled as a refugee, it spends years illiterate. Then he hears a French lesson for foreigners and writes in French. I realized why it was called illiteracy.

SA********
September 11, 2018

I'd like to tell you everything, but I just want to say, "Look at it and feel it.". The language problem that they have to deal with as they leave their society. Image problems. People's eyes on refugees. lets you think about questions you haven't thought about. And yet, it's readable. Go-to-go-Cristof!

SH******
August 10, 2018

P. 73 I left my secret writing notes in Hungary, as well as my first poems. I left my brother and brother there, my parents, without telling them to stay well or see you again. But most of all, at the end of November 1956, I completely lost my identity as a member of a ethnic group. P. What would my life be like if I hadn't left my country? It was harder, it was poorer, but I think it was less lonely and less painful. Maybe he was happy. I can be sure that everywhere I write in any language,.

GJ***
June 19, 2018

[Stately] unable to read or write the necessary sentences of everyday life. Why is this book blind? The author of the book, Agota Cristov, was born in Hungary but left his country and worked on his work as a national invasion. And eventually, he becomes a writer, not in his native language, but in French. At first, the author who knew nothing of emotions, things, colors or anything else in another language eventually learned and read a new language without having lost his native language. "I

JN*****
June 15, 2018

The autobiographical story P49 was the only language that I had ever heard, and I had never seen anything like it, but I had no idea that something, emotions, colors, dreams, books, newspapers, that this language could exist, that some human could pronounce words I couldn't understand, that it was more than 30 years since I spoke French, and that I still didn't know this language, but when I spoke in French, I made mistakes and often needed to write a dictionary, and because I couldn’t write it

VN*******
May 29, 2018

It was easy to read from the sitting. Reading the translator made me want to read other books of the writer! I ordered another book. I think illiteracy will be read two or three times!

CO*****
May 21, 2018

This is a book with 11 short chapters. But that's a summary of the past painful memory of the author of this book, Gogota Christotov, who is never light enough. The writer uses this story to describe the life of a stranger who lived in the 20th century, a writer and a woman. "Pshttos" is a French-speaking Hungarian novelist living in Switzerland, and she was forced to start her exile because of the Hungarian Revolution, so she lost her native language and became illiterate. But even the stories

아고타 크리스토프: 문맹
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