A truly outstanding and unique work of art, exploring human nature, culture, politics, oppression and much more with great subtlety and poeticism

While reading, I kept finding myself thinking of parallels between this work and the recent film Parasite by Bong Joon-ho, most notably when a bigoted character in each remarks that people of lower classes/castes have a distinctive, unpleasant smell. More generally, both works are very tense and puzzling explorations of class.