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A Dawn Soliloquy by Ko Un | LIST

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http://list.or.kr/node/831
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list_Books from Korea
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English(English)
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SOUTH KOREA
City
Seoul
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Writer
Ko Un

About the Author

  • Ko Un
  • Birth : 1933 ~ -
  • Occupation : Poet, Novelist
  • First Name : Un
  • Family Name : Ko
  • Korean Name : 고은
  • ISNI : 0000000110791051
  • Works : 101
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  • English(English)

A Dawn Soliloquy by Ko Un Author's Profile on Oct 29 2014 23:56:49 Vol.25 Autumn 2014 I would like to cast off all reserve and start writing about my private life. Recently I woke at dawn. I had come home very drunk the evening before, and the intense intoxication of the innocent drunkenness had passed but I felt very thirsty. I drank some water. Suddenly I disliked asking the simple question, “Who am I?” So I began with a doubt whether perhaps someone once gave the name Ko Un to a Ko Un who never existed and so became the I who has now been living as a poet for nearly 60 years. Is it a false I? I felt a chill. Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, there were a number of cases of false Ko Uns appearing in various parts of Korea. One acted as president of the jury at a regional poetry festival; one gained people’s attention by speaking in Sanskrit; one obtained money and valuables by saying that he was about to go on a journey overseas, which was something extremely rare at that time, but did not have enough for the fare. Worse still was that someone pretending to be Ko Un married a graduate from a women’s university in Seoul.

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