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Magnolia & Lotus: Selected Poems of Hyesim
Hyesim’s poetry, written in the twelfth century became the archetypal in Korean Buddhist literature for more than five hundred years.
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Scenes from Ch’ŏnggaye stream
Written in the 1930s, Scenes from Chonggye Stream is a collage of the daily lives of ordinary people who live along Chonggy Stream, which courses through the center of Seoul, Korea. The novel is divided into fifty chapters of differing lengths. It has neither a protagonist nor a plot but instead is a naturalistic description…
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Seopyeonje
A “song man” blinds his daughter to keep her from following her half-brother, who ran away due to the art’s rigorous training. The girl forgives her father before his death, and through this act, she deepens her insight into the nature of human existence, and, as her father had insisted would happen, elevates the art…
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A Chain of Dark Tales
A Chain of Dark Tales contains forty-five short stories. The phrase that most accurately describes this book would be The Great Quilt, a panoramic quilt with all possible, even impossible, thoughts and images and situations. Its as if he has laid out forty-five patches of unique materials, patterns, and colors in a public square and…