Showing I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (Harvest Original) by Young-ha Kim

Paperback. Pub Date :2007-7-1 Pages: 119 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Korean novelist Kims tantalizing 1996 debut novelconcerns a calculating. urbane young man who makes a business ofhelping his clients commit suicide The narrators favoritepainting. Jacques-Louis Davids The. Death of Marat. encapsulateshis outlook-to be detached and cold. an approach reflected in hisaccount of a recent client who was romantically involved with twobrothers (called C and K). The woman. Se-yeon. is a young. spacey. lollipop- sucking drifter who first hangs out with K before beddingC. Cab-driver K and video artist C become obsessed with Se-Yeon. who looks (to them) like Gustave Klimts Judith. Judith. as theysubsequently refer to her. later wanders off into a snowstorm. never to be seen by the brothers again. However. in this eerie. elliptical narrative. Judith reappears as the narrators ...