Charging forward, bombarding with bold questions about the oppression of women!

Yang Gui-ja's full-length novel, "I Wish for What is Forbidden to Me," became a hot topic amid feminist controversy as soon as its first edition was released in 1992. As the author's second full-length novel, it tells the story of a young woman who kidnaps, confines, and manipulates a popular male actor. It boldly overturns the reality of female oppression, showing men being abused and controlled, and raised the issue of gender inequality prevalent in our society with an aggressive approach never before seen in feminist novels, maximizing the novel's allure from the outset.

Author's Note

If there were a camera that could capture the soul, or a science that could photograph and develop suppressed and oppressed minds, there would be countless deep scars of women that would need to be clearly captured by pointing a lens at them. The oppression inflicted on women is so subtle and complex that it's hard to know where to begin and end to prove the extent of the wounds. A society where such things happen routinely, are routinely understood, and then mindlessly forgotten as part of daily life is truly wrong.
That's why Kang Min-ju appeared. A woman who abhors crawling low and stands tall to live, a woman who goes against the current, from the lower reaches to the upper reaches of the river. Such a protagonist was necessary. Though she doesn't exist in reality, in a novel, because it is a novel, someone like Kang Min-ju had to appear, I thought.

However, this novel was not written to create a battle of the sexes or to determine the superiority of one gender. This novel, so to speak, is a large photograph patterned with scars.
I humbly hope that this novel is not read only within the category of women's literature, but is read by all people who oppose all kinds of irrationality and tangible and intangible violence in the world. I believe that is the true courtesy towards life.

I wish for that which is forbidden to me.

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