Zündel's Exit Lannan Selections Pavane for a Dead Princess

Pavane for a Dead Princess examines how contemporary Korea’s obsession with beauty is its popular culture’s newest canker

but the reality is well known—the poets and writers interviewed by Shiva Rahbaran speak instead of humiliation

The narrator of this novel begins by introducing himself not as a speaker but a listener

” This enormously comic—and equally melancholic—tale is perhaps Jonke’s masterwork

there is a certain poignancy

Zündel's Exit Lannan Selections Pavane for a Dead PrincessScrounged from his notebooks and hearsay, this is the story of a schoolteacher named Konrad Zndel: a philosopher, a wanna be writer; scattered, self conscious, glum, anxious, unlucky, discontent . . . At the end of his rope, he decides to flee his workaday life at all costs, only to find escape always a little beyond his reach. Zndels Exit is a Chaplinesque comedy of disintegration, never knowing if its coming or going. Scrounged from his notebooks