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The Road to Our Paradise: Your Paradise by Yi Chong-Jun | LIST

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http://list.or.kr/content/road-our-paradise-your-paradise-yi-chong-jun
Journal
list_Books from Korea
Issued Date
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Language
English(English)
Country
SOUTH KOREA
City
Seoul
Book
Your paradise
Writer
Yi Chong-Jun
Translator
Jennifer M. Lee,Timothy R. Tangherlini

About the Author

  • Yi Chong-Jun
  • Birth : 1939 ~ 2008
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Chong-Jun
  • Family Name : Yi
  • Korean Name : 이청준
  • ISNI : 0000000453018634
  • Works : 67
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The Road to Our Paradise: Your Paradise by Yi Chong-Jun   By Yi Soo-hyung on Nov 02 2014 01:32:27 Vol.7 Spring 2010   Your Paradise Yi Chong-Jun Jennifer Lee , Timothy Tangherlini Green Integer 2004 250pp. ISBN 978-1931243698     Your Paradise is a work based on a true story that took place on a little island in Korea in the 1960s. Perhaps because of the continual rift between what is “normal” and “abnormal,” and between “mainland” and “island,” the book remains popular. Your Paradise, published in 1976 and reprinted more than 100 times since, is a steady seller, the most representative work by Yi Chong-Jun, and a major work of modern Korean literature. One of the reasons that this book, not quite an easy read, became a steady seller may lie in the intense longing evoked by the title, Your Paradise. If the title of another novel, The Square by Choi In-hun, seeks reconciliation between an open space—the square—and a closed space—a secret room—Your Paradise depicts the extremely difficult process through which “your paradise” might become “our paradise.” Why was it impossible, in the end, for “your paradise” to become “our paradise?” In this work set in the backdrop of a little island in the southern provinces of Korea, where sufferers of Hansen’s disease were quarantined since 1916, the otherness separating “us” from “them,” or “me” from “you,” is symbolic as well as historical. Based on modern medical discourse, it is declared that the patients of the disease will be treated and protected in the name of science; and the patients, who had suffered on the mainland, give their trust and devotion to the director of the hospital who promises them that together, they will turn their little island into a paradise. Share. Twitter Facebook Google Email .

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