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A Masterful Journey to the Past into History: The Old Garden by Hwang Sok-yong | LIST

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Article
http://list.or.kr/node/922
Journal
list_Books from Korea
Issued Date
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Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
SOUTH KOREA
City
Seoul
Book
The old garden
Writer
Hwang Sok-yong
Translator
Jay Oh

About the Author

  • Hwang Sok-yong
  • Birth : 1943 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Sok-yong
  • Family Name : Hwang
  • Korean Name : 황석영
  • ISNI : 0000000121322250
  • Works : 133
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  • English(English)

A Masterful Journey to the Past into History: The Old Garden by Hwang Sok-yong Author's Profile By Anna Lui on Nov 09 2014 00:18:29 Vol.5 Autumn 2009   The Old Garden Hwang Sok-yong Jay Oh New York Seven Stories Press 2009 544pp. ISBN 9781583228999 Hwang Sok-yong is often referred to as Korea’s best candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Hwang’s stories are about truly international characters. Oddly enough Seven Stories Press first learned about Korea’s leading author through his French publisher, Zulma. While editing The Old Garden, his tribute to South Korea’s democratic movement, I found myself checking the French translation and looking up German U-bahn stations, Russian towns, quotations from Bertolt Brecht and Käthe Kollwitz. The translator and I joked, "How many languages do you need to know to translate a Hwang Sok-yong novel?" In the midst of today’s fast-paced, globalized world, America’s population remains overwhelmingly and stubbornly monolinguistic. This is especially tragic in terms of literature when one considers the imbalance between how many books are translated from English and how few are translated into English. Some of the world’s greatest thinkers and most talented writers remain unknown to Americans. And when Americans do peek beyond their borders, the stories they are exposed to are often reproductions of common perceptions. The Columbian writer writes about violence and crime in Bogotá; the Afghani writer about the repression of women in a Taliban-controlled village. Readers flock to these stories thinking they will gain entry into an exotic, cloistered world.

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  • Chinese(汉语) Book Available
    客人
    Hwang Sok-yong et al / 황석영 / 2006
  • Chinese(汉语) Book Available
    故园
    Hwang Sok-yong et al / 황석영 / 2005
  • Chinese(汉语) Book Available
    悠悠家園
    Hwang Sok-yong et al / 황석영 / 2002

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