WHEN PAIN FITS INTO ONE COLOUR: “THE WHITE BOOK” BY HAN KANG AS AN INDUCTIVE TEXT FOR A NARRATIVE MEDICINE WORKSHOP
WHEN PAIN FITS INTO ONE COLOUR: “THE WHITE BOOK” BY HAN KANG AS AN INDUCTIVE TEXT FOR A NARRATIVE MEDICINE WORKSHOP

Summary/Abstract: Han Kang is the laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, 2024. The author was first translated into Romanian in 2019, by Art Publishing House, with the volume “ The White Book", but the discovery of the beauty and elegance of her simple technique, which touches the soul directly, like the snow of lambs in April, truly occurred when, first reading out of curiosity, the work of an author from Seoul who becomes universal through the excellence with which she knows how to map the finest and most unexpected sources of pain. Our work analyses the spaces of pain, as they are inserted in the book: the pain of her sister's birth and death, an event drawn in just two hours of life, with the smell of blood and tight and frozen fears, which became snowflakes, fog, pebbles, grains of sand or white nights, bones and memories. To the direct question asked by a doctor at the beginning of the anamnesis: "what hurts?", using Han Kang's novel as a base text for a narrative medicine workshop, we discovered, together with the workshop group, medical students and young doctors, the fragility and beauty of all life encapsulated in the colour white, the symbolic colour of the medical profession.

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