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Ancco

Auteur de Mauvaises filles

3 oeuvres 65 utilisateurs 5 critiques

Œuvres de Ancco

Mauvaises filles (2012) 42 exemplaires
Nineteen (2007) 21 exemplaires
Jindol et moi (2007) 2 exemplaires

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Partage des connaissances

Nom canonique
Ancco
Nom légal
Choi Kyung-jin
Date de naissance
1983
Sexe
female
Nationalité
Korea
Pays (pour la carte)
South Korea
Lieu de naissance
Seongnam, Korea

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Critiques

Really good. Somewhat gritty, troubled-teen memoir, set in South Korea. If that sounds like it would appeal then you'll probably enjoy it.
 
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thisisstephenbetts | 3 autres critiques | Nov 25, 2023 |
A depressing collection of short diary comics, autobiographical vignettes, and other stories by a Korean cartoonist centering around a family life full of drunkenness, domestic violence, and corporal punishment in schools. The artwork is scratchy and the heads on characters are often disproportionately large for their bodies.
 
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villemezbrown | Mar 6, 2021 |
Jinju es una chica mala. Fuma, se mofa de sus profesores, no vuelve a casa para dormir. Su padre no sabe reaccionar más que con los puños. En el instituto, son las antiguas alumnas las que propinan palizas a las nuevas. Ya sea en casa, en clase o en la calle, la violencia es omnipresente en la vida de las jóvenes coreanas.

Con quince años, Jinju conoce a Jung-ae, con la que entabla una relación de amistad muy intensa, y ambas deciden fugarse. Esa amistad se convierte en su refugio, pero también en una peligrosa escapatoria hacia el mundo de los adultos...

La autora Ancco rememora su propia adolescencia, sombría y brutal, en la Corea del Sur de los años 90 que sufre una grave crisis económica. Su barrio, donde no se atisba ningún horizonte, está a mil leguas de la Corea tecnológica alabada internacionalmente. Los adultos llevan vidas grises y la violencia física y moral está a la orden del día. Sobre esa violencia, que Ancco retrata con un tono seco y demoledor, afirma la dibujante que “el lector puede pensar que tuve una infancia muy oscura, pero es más complicado que eso. Cuando a una la pegan, no piensa que su vida es difícil. Duelen las costillas, la cabeza, una piensa en curarse. Mis amigas vivían lo mismo y nos divertíamos igual… Nunca se nos pasó por la cabeza pedir ayuda”.
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bibliotecayamaguchi | 3 autres critiques | Oct 18, 2019 |
Wow this book was really brutal and, to be honest, quite depressing.

Why read it then?

What made me borrow this book was because it’s a translated comic, and one from Korea. I haven’t read many Korean comics, and this was a rare one on the library shelves.

The story is told from the perspective of 16-year-old Pearl, growing up in the 1990s in a poor neighbourhood in Seoul, South Korea. Her father is abusive, but then so is nearly every relative in the building she lives in, who treat her like a punching bag.

“But in all the times Dad beat me, I never once hated him.

Any parent would have done the same.”

Those lines just made me ache with anger and sadness.

Pearl has a group of close friends at school. Her best friend is Jeong-Ae and the two of them run away for a while, staying at a motel and trying to get work as hostesses. But they both eventually return home. While Pearl has an abusive father, she realizes that her family is more ‘normal’ than the other girls’ families, especially Jeong-Ae’s. That while her father beats her, there is still someone who cares for her and wants better for her. One day, Jeong-Ae doesn’t turn up at school and no one knows where she is, although rumors are rampant. Pearl, ten years later, wonders what happened to her best friend.

“Why did it take me so long to figure out that being beaten didn’t have to be part of life?”

I came away from this book wondering if Korean culture was still like that – this acceptance of physical abuse. Parents, usually fathers, hitting, kicking, punching their children. Students physically hurting each other in school. Even teachers abuse their students.

It’s not uncommon to have canes in households in Singapore, even today. I don’t know about schools now but when I was in primary school, I remember that some teachers had canes. Is it something that’s just more accepted in Asian societies?

A harsh but honest look at the lives of these young women. One of the most disturbing books I’ve read.
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RealLifeReading | 3 autres critiques | May 18, 2019 |

Statistiques

Œuvres
3
Membres
65
Popularité
#261,994
Évaluation
½ 3.6
Critiques
5
ISBN
8
Langues
3

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