Diary of a Vagabond
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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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Three Generations
“The novel, filled with gossip and family intrigue as scandalous as any contemporary soap opera, reads deliciously like a Dostoevsky novel or ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ meets Korea’s traditional middle class.”- ‘KoreAm Magazine’ ‘Three Generations’ charts the tensions in the Jo family in 1930s Japanese-occupied Seoul. One of Korea’s most important works of fiction, ‘Three Generations’…
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A love song for the earnest
For the Korean farmers of the second half of the twentieth century, Korea’s shift from a farming to an industrial society imposed hardship on their lives. Shin Kyungrim, who understood their pain and suffering, recorded their feelings in A Love Song for the Earnest, a collection of over sixty poems that not only mirrors the…