Nobel Prize for Literature to Han Kang: Not a false line – Culture

The American Nobel Prize winner for literature, Ernest Hemingway, in 1954, has always rejected the claim that his masterpiece, the story “The Old Man and the Sea,” should be read symbolically. In his letters he insisted that in the story there was only one man, one boy, the sea and nothing else, no symbols and no metaphors. And to a certain extent, this tension also accounts for the fascination of Han Kang's novel “The Vegetarian,” which won the British Booker Prize in 2016. Now she is receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature and at least in what has been translated into German so far, there will hardly be a bad line to be found.