We are living in the era of visualization, which means we are more familiar with movies than we are with literature, and with mass media than with books. However, it is hard to define this trend negatively, because images and loners cannot be substitu...
We are living in the era of visualization, which means we are more familiar with movies than we are with literature, and with mass media than with books. However, it is hard to define this trend negatively, because images and loners cannot be substituted for one another. They accept their differences, and even share intertextual exchanges and relations. Therefore, movies use the narrative structure of the novel and novels use the imagination and techniques of movies in new ways.
Kim Kyeong Wook's noel Bagbdad Cafe Doesn't」 Have Coffee provides a good example of utilizing movies in the World Of literature. first, this novel adopts motifs and techiques from movies and displays visual images. Second, photography, editing, and lighting techniques are used in the text. Third using the cinematic technique of montage, the writer deconstrucrs the unitary focus of the modern viewpoint. Fourth, this novel avoids the overdetermined and predictable naming of characters, and instead uses a perceptual and visual naming through the writer's observation.
In conclusion Kim Kyeong Wook's novels are a meaningful attempt to represent a harmony between visual images and conceptual letters, and one of the answers to the question of where literature is currently located.