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English(English) E-Book

Into the Light

About the E-Books

Author
金史良
Co-Author
-
Translator
Jane Kim
Publisher
Literature Translation Institute of Korea
Published Year
2013
Country
SOUTH KOREA (Seoul)
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1910-1945

Original Title
빛속에
Romanization of Original
Bitsoge
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9788993360271
Page
-
Series
20th Century Korean Literature

About the Author

  • Kim Sa-ryang
  • Birth : 1914 ~ 1950
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Sa-ryang
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김사량
  • ISNI : 0000000374741955
  • Works : 8
About the Original Work
  • 빛속에
  • Author : -
  • Published Year : 1939
  • English Title : Into the Light
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Kim Sa-ryang’s literary activities started after his enrollment at Tokyo National University when he was studying German literature. Despite the fact that most of his works are published in Japanese, they are highly regarded for their elaborate projection of Korea’s reality of the time and the portrayal of the Korean people’s deep-rooted pain that existed due to imperial colonization. Written in Japanese and nominated as the candidate for the Akutagawa Award in 1940, "Into the Light" is a masterpiece that accurately details the discrimination and sorrow experienced by colonized Koreans living in Japan, the duplicity and distorted desire of Koreans who were trying to hide their Korean identity, and the immutable, yearning for one’s Korean mother.