The brush and the sword: Kasa
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From Wonso Pond
“A fatherless young girl now poised to become the victim of [the landlord’s] lecherous fangs and paws,” begins one of the original newspaper teasers describing The Country and the City and the fate of its heroine Sonbi. In a plot rich with Dickensian overtones, the novel paints a vivid picture of life in what is…
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SUSAEK
Susaek tells the story of a writer who, in the midst of a mid-life crisis, begins a search for his identity. As a child and encouraged by his family, Lee Su-Ho mistakenly believed that he was the child of his father s mistress. When the mistress left, Su-Ho felt abandoned by both his real mother…
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Reading Korea: 12 contemporary stories
Without question, literature is the best place to start knowing and understanding one another. For isn’t there a real fascinating connection between writers and place – where people come from and where they go? A very large part of a nation’s writing is the story of its roots in a place and when Koreans come…
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Four contemporary Korean plays
“South Korean drama has received considerable attention in Europe and Asia, but, until recently, received only scant attention in the United States. This anthology contains early works (1989-1993) by one of Korea’s leading theatre artists. These works reflect the nature of Lee Yun-Taek’s genius, his contributions to contemporary Korean theatre, and the socio-political climate in…
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Allegory of survival : the theater of Kang-baek Lee
In the civil and government upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s in Korea, Kang-baek Lee began his distinguished playwriting career. He is perhaps best known as the premier writer of social commentary in the form of allegories in an effort to circumvent extremely strict censorship laws which were heavily enforced until 1989. However, Lee is…
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