R.F. Kuang's Reviews > The Vegetarian

i think one day i'll have an articulate explanation of certain logics of anorexia that have nothing to do with wanting to look a certain way, or even perceiving your own body a certain way, but not today, at least not very well...just continuing to sit with this. strange pairing coming off a Sally Rooney bender, and the attendant exhausting conversations about her characters' thinness... but it's really not about beauty standards, it's rejecting animal embodiment, a kind of disgust or at least impatience with the material world, freedom from desire, whittling yourself down to an idea – not to romanticize or idealize it or whatever, and I don't think Han Kang or Sally Rooney do so, but i don't think i'm the only one who for whom this logic feels true, sometimes