"Lapin maudit" de Bora Chung
Summary
This France Culture episode highlights Korean literature at the Avignon Festival, featuring two eerie stories by Bora Chung. The first recounts a grandfather’s cursed rabbit lamp that destroys a rival’s family across three generations. The second depicts a woman haunted by a grotesque head emerging from her toilet, which eventually grows a body and demands her clothes.
Topics discussed
Introduction: Korean literature and culture on France Culture
The grandfather's distillery and shamanic reputation
Prohibition, industrial alcohol, and the grandfather's ruin
The cursed lamp and the rat infestation plot
The open day and the grandson's strange behavior
The grandson's transformation and the company's collapse
The CEO's son suffers the curse's consequences
The narrator's fear of inheriting the curse
The Head in the Toilet: A new story begins
The Head's persistence and the mother's attempts to flush it
The Head emerges and reveals its true form
The confrontation: The Head demands the mother's life
Conclusion and credits for the reading
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