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Mujong

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Author
Kwang-su Yi
Co-Author
-
Translator
Ann Sung-hi Lee
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Published Year
2010
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century

Original Title
무정
Romanization of Original
Mujeong
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9781942242277
Page
-
Series
OVERDRIVE READ

About the Author

  • Yi Kwang-Su
  • Birth : 1892 ~ 1950
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kwang-Su
  • Family Name : Yi
  • Korean Name : 이광수
  • ISNI : 0000000110594496
  • Works : 43
About the Original Work
  • 무정
  • Author : Yi Kwang-Su
  • Published Year : 1918
  • English Title : -
More About the Original Work
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  • English(English)

Yi Kwang-su (1892–1950) was one of the pioneers of modern Korean literature. When the serialization of Mujong (The Heartless) began in 1917, it was an immediate sensation, and it occupies a prominent place in the Korean literary canon. The Heartless is the story of a love triangle among three youths during the Japanese occupation. Yi Hyōng-sik is a young man in his mid-twenties who is teaching English at a middle school in Seoul. Brilliant but also shy and indecisive, he is torn between two women. Kim Sōn-hyōng is from a wealthy Christian family; she has just graduated from a modern, Western-style school and is planning on continuing her studies in the United States. Pak Yōng-ch'ae is a musically gifted young woman who was raised in a traditional Confucian manner; due to family misfortune, she has become a kisaeng but remains devoted to Hyōng-sik whom she knew as a child. The Heartless goes beyond the level of romantic melodrama and uses these characters to depict Korea's struggles with modern culture and national identity. A long critical introduction discusses Yi Kwang-su's life and work from his birth in 1892 to the publication of his first novel The Heartless in 1917. It contains in-depth analyses of the novel, Yi Kwang-su's literary theory, and early short stories.

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