문학과 지성사

An infinitely variant landscape in an empty frame.

Looking Out the Window begins with a scene where the speaker receives an empty notebook from a friend, Jaeok, who tells her to “make good use of it and report back.” The introspective writer resorts to poetic musings when she finds herself unable to write even a single sentence—overcoming the writer’s block with intentional, careful reading. By following the invisible sentences filling the empty pages, she dares to transcend the causality of writing. Her composition runs parallel to the book’s central paradox that a window the author frequently looks out from is at once empty and full of transforming sceneries. Looking Out the Window, therefore, is a metaphor for a literary exploration into describing what’s hardly describable, striving to hold down the fleeting words one encounters and loses in the endlessly continuing moments. Through the strange beauty that’s only possible in such an endeavor, the author wishes to connect with you, who might be looking out the window somewhere.