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Wild Apricots

About the E-Books

Author
Lee Hyoseok
Co-Author
-
Translator
Steven D. Capener
Publisher
Literature Translation Institute of Korea
Published Year
2014
Country
SOUTH KOREA (Seoul)
Classification

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

Original Title
개살구
Romanization of Original
Gaesalgu
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9788993360547
Page
-
Series
20th Century Korean Literature

About the Author

  • Lee Hyoseok
  • Birth : 1907 ~ 1942
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Hyoseok
  • Family Name : Lee
  • Korean Name : 이효석
  • ISNI : 0000000083795582
  • Works : 36
About the Original Work
  • 개살구
  • Author : -
  • Published Year : 1937
  • English Title : Wild Apricots
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Lee Hyoseok (1907 – 1942) is counted among Korea’s best short story writers along with the likes of Hyun Jin-geon, Yi Taejun, and Park Taewon. 
Together with his contemporary Yu Jinoh, he was classified as a “fellow traveler” writer. Such an epithet was used to describe writers who, while not officially joining KAPF, sympathized with its ideology and aims and reflected these sympathies in their writing. A number of his early novels such as “City and Specter,” “Siberian Coast,” “Correspondence from the North Country,” and “Mahjong Philosophy” are good examples of such works. 
However, with the decline of proletariat literature in the early 1930s, Lee became a member of the modernist coterie Group of Nine. After joining the Group of Nine, Lee discarded his socialist leanings in favor of a powerful eroticism based on a lyrical style of storytelling. Characteristic of this style are the works “Pig,” “Bunnyeo,” “Mountains,” and “Fields.”