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Yi Chong-Jun: Looking Into the Heart of History | LIST

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http://list.or.kr/node/539
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list_Books from Korea
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English(English)
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SOUTH KOREA
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Seoul
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Yi Chong-Jun

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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Yi Chong-Jun: Looking Into the Heart of History   BY CLAUDE MOUCHARD ON OCT 18 2014 14:15:51 VOL.1 AUTUMN 2008   Korean literary giant Yi Chong-Jun passed away last July 31 of lung cancer. University of Paris VIII Professor Emeritus Claude Mouchard, Yi’s close friend, wrote this article under the title “Yi Chong-Jun for French Readers” before Yi’s death. Through this article, one can pay homage to and relive the literary world of Yi Chung-Jun. 1 This Paradise of Yours published by Actes Sud, 1993 2 The Wounded published by Jimoondang Publishing Company, 2002 3 Io Island published by Actes Sud, 1991 The novels and stories of Yi Chong-Jun (available for years to French readers in translation through the translations of Patrick Maurus, published by Actes Sud) constitute a substantial and often disturbing body of work. Readers who have read the works of other Korean novelists available through many different French publishers (such as Actes Sud or Zulma) will find his work powerfully original. Each reader can uncover, with more or less insight depending on their knowledge of the country’s history, hint after hint of the tragedies that afflicted Korea during the 20th century.

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