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Consultant

Author

Im Seongsun

Publisher

EunHaeng NaMu Publishing Co., Ltd.

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Chinese (Simplified)

Keywords

  • #Korean literature
  • #Death
  • #murder

Copyright Contact

Kim Seohae

  • Publication Date

    2010-04-20
  • No. of pages

    296
  • ISBN

    9788956603391
  • Dimensions

    150 * 210
Overview

Written in the format of a memoir, the story discloses the very heart of violence committed against individuals by people under anonymity and materialism.

Book Intro

When a company receives an assassination order, it pays the main character in the story to write a “death scenario.” Afterwards, the company follows the “death scenario” to assassinate the target, making it look like an accident. The main character carries his name card, which introduces him as a consultant. The story makes it clear that there is no difference between killing someone and being made redundant by a company. The story arrives at the final rebuttal against an excuse by companies that they have no choice but to lay off their employees. The company in the story hires a killer, but the company represents a social system that is full of uncertainty and opacity and ineffective bureaucracy. In the story, materialism is portrayed as a symbol without any specifics, and suspicious deaths that occur remind readers of our own society that is still not transparent, logical, or rational. The cynical humor from the beginning of the story mocks the absurdity of injustice and inequality, and the writer uses the thriller narrative for readers to re-examine the society we live in. The writer stated that his purpose for writing the book was for his readers re-examine what we take for granted and what we believe to be entitled to. To write the perfect scenarios of death included in the story, the writer perused pages of forensic medicine and got inspiration from obituaries in newspapers. The killing scenarios are used as frame stories, and readers can enjoy reading them like short thriller stories in the book. The book, however, is not a simple thriller. There are certain repeated keywords throughout the novel such as “mountain gorillas” and “Congo,” allegories for innocent victims in the huge mechanism of capitalism. Starvation and the slaughter of people and animals are the consequences of our apathy over what we deem to be inconsequential under the excuse that there is nothing we can do about it. The book reminds readers how we turn a blind eye and bury the truth with that excuse.

About the Author

Im Seongsun



Im Seongsun debuted in 2010 with his book Consultant, for which he received the Segye Literary Award. His other novels include Mun Geunyeong Is Dangerous, On the Contrary Amicable People Live Here, At the Extreme, The Book of Self-Improvement, and Ouroboros. He also published a collection of his essays, Obsoletely, Uselessly. In 2018, he received the ninth Young Writer’s Award for his short story “A Flock of Sheep Roaming the Corridor and Their Predators.”

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