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Review 'Impressive fluidity... like a lucid dream.' ? Foreword Reviews 'An oddly entertaining stream of consciousness that flows out over the thirsty Lone Star State.' ? Kirkus Reviews 'What fascinates, delights and sometimes terrifies in Jung's brilliant and funny narrative is his ability to maintain a line of thought so clear and reflective, and so close to its originating impulse that you fear it might, at any moment, self-annihilate in that sort of feedback scream you get when the microphone ventures too near the speaker. ? David Searcy, author of Shame and Wonder: EssaysPRAISE FOR VASELINE BUDDHA: 'Reading Vaseline Buddha feels like watching a magician who explains his trick as he performs it and yet still mesmerizes you with his sleight of hand. You simultaneously enter the dream and wake from it...This resistance underpinning the entire exercise makes Jung an heir to Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz, who understood that writing is the documentation of a dance the writer does between form and chaos.' ? Tyler Malone, Los Angeles Times'The novel raises questions about story, and how stories are created. It muses on where thoughts come from, how they act on us, and how to live a life that doesn�t take itself too seriously, while still earnestly engaging with the world. Jung�s work is as a hybrid of fiction, journal, and philosophical aphorisms. It begins in a place where meaning is of little concern, and ends by asking the reader to build up her own meaning while enjoying Jung�s fragments for the small, precious pleasures they provide.' ? John W. W. Zeiser, Los Angeles Review of Books'We wade into these... streams of consciousness and are swept away in a current of fluid thought, as sensation and ideation merge into a movement of molecules, a tide in perpetual flux.' ? Tyler Malone, Literary Hub'A remarkable work for its eccentric modes of thought and how it looks beyond the basic novel form and asks important secondary questions of where fiction is left to go.� ? Jason DeYoung, Review31 (a 'Best Novels of 2016' selection)'By continuing to reject the instinct for the order of things, the novel seeks to shed darkness on glimpses of the void. In those intense moments of deconstruction, the nothing that the language cannot express can be felt briefly in a moment of silent understanding amid cascade of words.' ? Jack Saebyok Jung, The Quarterly Conversation'The book echoes the hectic nature of life itself, how chaotic and challenging it can be at times� certainly not a conventional novel, but it is one that challenges and enriches any reader who takes the time to follow Jung Young Moon as he contemplates the world around him.� ? Louisa Lee, Inspire Me Korea'Jung Young Moon�s work is remarkable for its eccentric modes of thought and how it tests the limits of the novel and our notions of what fiction can do. It looks beyond the basic form and asks important secondary questions of where fiction is left to go. It also reveals crisply the cryptic nature of everyday life, which if examined with deep seriousness, will inevitably lead to deep absurdity?and that makes its futility somewhat pleasing.' ? Jason De Young, Numero Cinq Magazine'The book plays directly to the central questions of the act of writing: Should writing be driven by order or chaos? Should it structure the universe or reflect its seeming randomness? Is the imposition of form a virtue of a vice? On that front, it feels akin to writers like Gombrowicz and Beckett.' ? Tyler Malone, The Literary Hub'Surreal landscapes, automatic writing, and Kafka comparisons? Our interest is piqued by this book, yes indeed.' ? Vol. 1 Brooklyn 'A strange and wonderful novel. First and foremost, it is a page-turner, but in a way entirely different from what the phrase 'page-turner' usually evokes...page after page, you�ll find yourself smiling, if not laughing out loud, at the comic absurdity that occupies the narrator�s mind and writing.' ? Kalau Almony, Reading in Translation'The circularity of his writing, and his repeated efforts to create a story, are, we begin to realise, themselves a form of therapy?an attempt to work through unexpressed suffering.?' ? Tony Malone, Asymptote�Jung offers an audacious discourse on creativity, presenting readers with a labyrinth of ideas, images, suggestions, and observations all waiting and available to individual interpretation.� ? Library Journal'I have no...idea what this book is going to be like but I know it has piqued my curiosity. Jung Young Moon has been compared to Kafka and Beckett and I�m into that. Jason DeYoung described the book as �meditative, challenging, narratively haywire and comic�, and I�m into that, too. Modern Korean literature? Sure, into that, too. And I kind of want to know what a Vaseline Buddha is, so I�m gonna pick it up ASAP.' ? Susie Rodarme, BookRiot'One of South Korea's more eccentric contemporary writers, Jung could almost be described as a cross between Beckett and Brautigan � his earlier writing was often extremely dark, but recently the balance has tipped towards lightness, of touch as much as of mood. It's all part of an aesthetic which prizes vagueness, randomness, digression rather than progression.' ? Deborah Smith, translator of The Vegetarian and The White Book 'A quite nicely wending stream, of consciousness and more...' ? Michael Orthofer, The Complete Review'If you want something vastly different to anything else currently out there, I strongly recommend Vaseline Buddha . . . Vaseline Buddha may be a weird novel, but it leaves you thinking in ways you might not have considered before.' ? The Sleepless Editor'One achieves a kind of serenity when we delve into this book. I find that eccentrics like Jung are needed in literature.' ? Achim Stanislawski'Truly meaningful literature. What makes this novel so fascinating is its permanent liminality and ambiguity: it is exactly the completely obvious which remains ultimately cryptic; it is exactly the linguistic hyper-precision which leads to confusion; it is exactly the �boring� stuff which becomes thrilling at another level; and it is exactly the humorous, ironic attitude of the author-narrator which proves his deep seriousness.' ? Jan Dirks'Dispassionate, subversive, ambiguous, utterly cuckoo at times, Jung Young Moon has written a short masterwork of contemporary digression, a far distant cousin to Tristram Shandy (1759); but also a novel that acts as an antidote to our age of distraction because it takes real presence to follow the narrator�s mind, a mind that is looking to challenge the notions of fiction ? to create fiction that one might hesitate to call fiction.' ? J.S. DeYoung, Splice Magazine'Who better than a Texas-based publisher of fiction in translation to champion an unusual work by a Korean writer, set in the Lone Star state?� No-one, that�s who.' ? Tony Malone Read more About the Author Jung Young Moon, born in 1965, is an award-winning Korean writer and translator. A graduate of Seoul National University with a degree in psychology, Jung is also an alum of the University of Iowa�s International Writing Program. In 2012, he won the Han Moo-suk Literary Award, the Dong-in Literary Award, and the Daesan Literary Award for his novel A Contrived World. He has been a resident at the University of California at Berkeley�s Center for Korean Study and the 100 West Corsicana Artists� & Writers� Residency in Texas, the latter of which inspired his novel Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River. Deep Vellum published his novel Vaseline Buddha in 2016, and will publish his linked novella trilogy Arriving in a Thick Fog in 2020. Read more
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