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…
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Land: volume 3
Originally published in three parts comprising 21 volumes, Pak Kyung-ni’s Land (T’oji) is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Korean literature and has achieved unprecedented popularity in Korea. The epic follows the fortunes and misfortunes of several generations of villagers of a traditional farming community, and at the same time chronicles Korea’s tumultuous history from…
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Land: volume 2
Originally published in three parts comprising 21 volumes, Pak Kyung-ni’s Land (T’oji) is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Korean literature and has achieved unprecedented popularity in Korea. The epic follows the fortunes and misfortunes of several generations of villagers of a traditional farming community, and at the same time chronicles Korea’s tumultuous history from…
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The island
With its unique style and heart warming stories, The Island has attracted widespread public attention since it was published in Korea in 1991. The bulk of the work recounts childhood memories and has its primary setting the authors island home. The Island is essentially a novel of remembrance. It is also a novel infused with…
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You Arrived in the Season of Perennial Summer
Times like this are no good. They’re too distant from the root cause. I think I was a weaver in a factory a hundred years ago. Maybe a handweaver for hire a thousand years ago. I’m now weaving things that aren’t easily woven. Language? What language? I fail each time. When I fail, I can…
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The Society for Studies in Matryoshka and Basting Pins
‘K-포엣’ 시리즈 열네 번째는 유형진의 신작 시선집 『마트료시카 시침핀 연구회』다. ‘K-포엣’ 시리즈에서는 처음 선보이는 연작시집이며, 유형진은 “이 연작시들은 모두 2016년 가을부터 모이게 된 광화문 광장의 사람들에게 빚지고 있다”고 말한다. 박동억 문학평론가는 “유형진의 시는 마트료시카의 존재 방식과 닮아있다”며, “여러 겹의 환상으로 이루어진 세계를 구상하는 작업”이 바로 유형진만의 시 세계라고 평한다. 유형진은 ‘환상’으로 만들어진 찰나의 순간들을 ‘시침핀’으로…
