Y/N -

Esther Yi

Astra House

2023

204 páginas

6h 48m

ISBN-10: B0B1BRSRYR

Y/N, a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction.

It’s as if her life only began once Moon appeared in it. The desultory copywriting work, the boyfriend, and the want of anything not-Moon quickly fall away when she beholds the idol in concert, where Moon dances as if his movements are creating their own gravitational field; on live streams, as fans from around the world comment in dozens of languages; even on skincare products endorsed by the wildly popular Korean boyband, of which Moon is the youngest, most luminous member. Seized by ineffable desire, our unnamed narrator begins writing Y/N fanfic—in which you, the reader, insert [Your/Name] and play out an intimate relationship with the unattainable star.

Then Moon suddenly retires, vanishing from the public eye. As Y/N flies from Berlin to Seoul to be with Moon, our narrator, too, journeys to Korea in search of the object of her love. An escalating series of mistranslations and misidentifications lands her at the headquarters of the Kafkaesque entertainment company that manages the boyband until, at a secret location, together with Moon at last, art and real life approach their final convergence.

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"you've settled for a comfortable distance from him so that you can yearn without suffering. sorry, but you're not in love. you're a fan."

"What would happen if creation were a job to do? Culture amounted to a collection of agreed-upon values that made it possible for large groups of people to live beside each other in relative peace. What would happen if a teenage boy shared a culture not with billions of strangers but with just a few other boys? What would happen if context, especially the crass pressure of survival, were stripped away? What would happen if physical security, creative fulfillment, and even wild success were guaranteed? How might a boy construct his humanity outside of these aims?"

me surpreendi muito com esse livrinho, viu. temas muito, muito bem debatidos. os meus favoritos: a individualidade formada pelo consumo em massa, a obsessão de fandom e como isso leva até à ficcionalização de um ser humano, e como isso se relaciona com a vida moderna que nós levamos, tentando nos conectar com alguma coisa, nos agarrar a algo, e a autora mistura esse debate com a solidão cotidiana. o final é um pouco confuso, as coisas ficam malucas kkk mas é muito bacana mesmo, amei!