"Lapin maudit" de Bora Chung
Summary
France Culture highlights Korean literature at the Avignon Festival, featuring two eerie stories by Bora Chung. The first recounts a grandfather’s cursed rabbit lamp that ruins a rival distiller’s family across three generations. The second depicts a woman haunted by a grotesque head emerging from her toilet, born from her waste. These tales explore supernatural retribution and irrational dread within modern Korean society.
Topics discussed
Introduction to Korean literature and 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 CEO's son's strange behavior
The boy's decline, obsession, and physical collapse
The enchanted rabbit and the grandfather's fate
Rules of curses and the grandfather's ghostly return
The head in the toilet and the young woman's marriage
The head's return after childbirth and family tension
The woman's resolve and the head's emergence
The confrontation: identity, clothes, and revenge
Conclusion and credits
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