Un día fueron alumn@s del Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana de la UGR. Como nosotros ahora. Al Dpto. le gusta saber qué ha sido de ellos y ellas tras abandonar los acogedores pasillos y aulas de la Facultad con su título debajo del brazo, así que han creado una sección en la web para que cuenten sus historias. En primera persona del singular. Porque todos fueron y siguen siendo únicos.
Si fuiste alumn@ del Dpto. o conoces a alguien que lo fuera, estás invitado a participar en esta maravillosa iniciativa utilizando el siguiente formulario: nos gustará teneros de nuevo con nosotros.
Lola Portero Pedraza (2011-2015) |
José Alberto Gómez Soria (2011-2015) |
Amanda Molas Serrano (2010-2014) |
Iñigo Yanguas (1990-1995) |
Being vegan or vegetarian in a culture where meat eating is normative comes with many challenges. Even if they vary depending on how uncommon these ethical choices are in each particular culture, it is safe to affirm that most vegetarians or vegans will face the same trials at one point or another in their lives, ranging from the material difficulty in finding any decent option when eating out, to the hostility displayed by omnivores, even among close friends or family members. This is just the tip of the iceberg that Han Kang uncovers in her haunting novel The Vegetarian, originally published in Korean in 2007 and translated into English almost a decade later. Deborah Smith’s translation merited the award of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize; no small feat if we take into account that Smith had only started learning Korean seven years before, at the age of 21, and that The Vegetarian saw off competition from, among others, A Strangeness in my Mind, Ekin Oklap’s translation of Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk’s Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık.