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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Chong-wha Chung |
| ISBN: | 0710304900 9780710304902 |
| OCLC Number: | 30069381 |
| Description: | xli, 467 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Modern Korean Literature 1908-65 / Chung Chong-wha -- The Camellias / Kim Yujong -- Shower / Hwang Sun-won -- The Marsh / Kim Dong-ni -- The Flood / Han Mal-suk -- The Young Zelkova Tree / Kang Shin-jae -- The Rock / Han Mu-suk -- Meetings and Farewells / Yi Sang -- Picture of a Shaman Sorceress / Kim Dong-ni -- The Wings / Yi Sang -- The Night Outing / Kim Sung-ok -- The Red Hills: A Doctor's Diary / Kim Dong-in -- Snow / Hwang Sun-won -- Dogs in the Village beyond Hills / Hwang Sun-won -- Spring, Spring / Kim Yujong -- The Buckwheat Season / Yi Hyo-suk -- The Fire / Hyun Chin-kon -- A Lucky Day / Hyun Chin-kon -- The Crag / Kim Dong-ni -- The Afternoon of Mellow Persimmons / Sohn So-hi -- The Tale of Kim Takbo / Yi Mun-gu -- Echoes / O. Yong-su -- A Betrayal / Oh Sang-won -- Two Reservists / Kim Dong-ni -- Retreat / Hwang Sun-won -- Winter, 1964, Seoul / Kim Sung-ok -- A Journey to Mujin / Kim Sung-ok -- The Heir / Suk Ki-won -- Laughter / Choi In-hun. |
| Series Title: | Korean culture series (London, England). |
| Responsibility: | edited by Chung Chong-wha. |
Abstract:
From the time of ideological chaos following the independence of Korea in 1945 up to the fall of the USSR in the 1980s, modern Korean literature has been powerfully swayed by Marxist ideology one way or another. Literature has an important role to play in its portrayal of the relations between society and individual people, and it has a particularly vital social function in developing or undeveloped countries. However, the stories in this anthology are not just historical documents. They represent the peak of literary achievements by great and gifted writers in the first half of this century. It is remarkable to find so many talented writers producing so many powerful works of art in a short span of just over fifty years between 1908 and 1965. This anthology is an invitation to readers to grasp how much Korea has attained in the process of its modernisation.
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