12/30/2023 0 Comments Hanya yanagihara![]() ![]() The three, out of the four friends in the novel who move to live in New York, are solidly unaware of Jude’s backstory, but a special bond holds the group together. To turn his indignation inward has stemmed from his early childhood, and a potential self-violence – not so often exploited in fiction until recently – comes as his natural reaction. The reading audience is slowly and generously driven to Jude’s facing the challenge that his childhood trauma may be never repaired, that he may not ever be in a capacity to recover from it. It lived for years in the author’s imagination it passed several transformations in terms of the main character’s typical features and occupation, but the approach to the world based on personal experience and a way of living and facing difficulties remained unchanged from the birth of the idea to write A Little Life. Hanya is fascinated with describing how abuse has an impact on a male’s life over the long run, the character of Jude and his story representing a reference point. That endeavor reminds the reading audience of other writers succumbing to the friendship line in their narratives like Lincoln, Coleridge, etc. One of the messages her novel, A Little Life, delivers is that friendship is unique in essence and is a search for the most valuable in one’s life. It is the concept of friendship that dominates her understanding about relationships, and more so, when they live outside the conventional paradigm of the society. She doesn’t believe in marriage, nor do her characters. She has never wanted a family of her own. Now she is settled in Manhattan, and is an editor of the T magazine at The New York Times. The sense of moving, staying at motels and facing a variety of stories overwhelms her literary endeavors and life experience. ![]() He was a doctor, a researcher at the National Health Institute, and regularly moved to different places, like New York, Baltimore, California, Texas, LA, where Hanya was born. Hanya’s mother was born in Seoul, but grew up in Hawaii, as Hanya’s father, too. Many have discovered that reading Hanya Yanagihara’s book drives to traumatic experiences, childhood reminiscences, honesty, ethics… The author is desperately attempting to bridge a fairy tale with naturalism. Her voluminous novel, A Little Life, has provoked the readers to know more about her. She strongly admires the paintings that Geoffrey Chadsey has drawn. She used to go to the morgue, accompanied by a pathologist’s daughter, to draw the faces of dead people. At her age of ten, she might have dreamed of becoming a scientist. ![]()
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