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Sinossi
Baek Sehee è giovane, ha una laurea in Scrittura creativa e lavora per una casa editrice: ha una vita apparentemente serena, una carriera che dovrebbe farla sentire appagata. Eppure un forte malessere esistenziale l'accompagna, non una vera e propria depressione, piuttosto un'apatia cronica che le impedisce di vivere pienamente i rapporti di amicizia, l'amore, i successi lavorativi. Baek si rivolge a uno psichiatra per cercare di dare un nome al suo stato d'animo e scopre di soffrire di distemia, una forma più lieve della depressione, ma con sintomi persistenti. Trascrivendo le sedute settimanali con lo psichiatra, Baek racconta con semplicità e ironia le difficoltà che si trova a vivere giorno dopo giorno; l'ansia del non saper gestire al meglio le nuove amicizie, l'ossessione per il proprio aspetto fisico, l'insicurezza provocata dal giudizio degli altri suscitano in lei una serie di meccanismi di difesa e comportamenti autolesionisti. E, soprattutto, un alternarsi continuo tra la sensazione di vuoto lancinante e l'allegria di una serata con gli amici; tra l'apatia e il desiderio impellente di uscire per gustare un bel piatto di gnocchi di riso saltati in padella e conditi con salsa piccante: i toppokki, il suo street food preferito. Come conciliare queste sensazioni così distanti tra loro?
- ISBN: 8804771534
- Casa Editrice: Mondadori
- Pagine: 180
- Data di uscita: 18-04-2023
Recensioni
This is a hard book to review or rate because according to how it is being marketed it is supposed to be "part memoir" and "part self help", but then, it is neither. This book is literally (yes, I mean literally) TRANSCRIPTS of her therapy sessions with her therapist with some short reflections re t Leggi tutto
Inhaled this book this weekend morning and I am so glad I decided to pick it up after getting frustrated by my recents reads turning out to be either DNFs or very disappointing ones. This short memoir deals with mental health and a lot of issues most of us keep thinking about almost everyday regardin Leggi tutto
Short version: I still want to die but I also want to eat tteokpokki. Slightly longer version: This book was a little too bare for my tastes and not as intimate or in-depth as I would have expected from reading transcripts of therapy sessions. Sometimes the advice the therapists gave would make me si Leggi tutto
The best part of this book is the title. What a banger of a title. Holding out on suicidal ideation because of a small joy in life and holding that dialectic. I wanted to read this based on the title alone. Maybe I shouldn't do that. This is less a book and more a transcript of a few therapy session Leggi tutto
Review: (1★) I try not to write overly harsh, critical and mean reviews, but to be very honest, I hated this book. Having personally suffered from mental health issues myself, I was hopeful for this book. However, I found the writing disappointing, and the author immature, infuriating and insufferab Leggi tutto
❀ blog ❀ thestorygraph ❀ letterboxd ❀ tumblr ❀ ko-fi ❀ “I wonder about others like me, who seem totally fine on the outside but are rotting on the inside, where the rot is this vague state of being not-fine and not-devastated at the same time.” There was something about the title and cover of this Leggi tutto
I think one of the most important lessons that I learned from this book is that there is only one "you" in this world, and you are special in your own way, regardless of what happens. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokpokki is a book originally written in Korean, about a woman diagnosed with dyst Leggi tutto
English: I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki This novel proves that good intentions don't guarantee good literature: Autofictional protagonist Baek suffers from persistent depressive disorder (PDD), and the text consists of talks with a therapist over the course of twelves weeks, illustrating Leggi tutto
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