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Maninbo: Peace & War by Ko Un

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Article
http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2015/september/maninbo-peace-war-ko-un
Journal
World Literature Today
Issued Date
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Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
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Book
Maninbo
Writer
Ko Un
Translator
Brother Anthony of Traizé,LEE SANG-WHA

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 young man is forced into compulsory labor while the civil war that rages around him kills millions of his compatriots; when the conflict concludes, he spends the next decade a Buddhist monk, turning his back on the world; returning but filled with despair, he lurches toward alcoholism then suicide; he fails (several attempts) but is energized by a surging democratization movement and becomes a leading dissident; over two decades he is imprisoned four times for parapolitical activities; he is accused of treason and sentenced to twenty years in prison, where he is tortured and beaten; he is pardoned, eventually, and becomes a father at fifty; all the while, prodigious numbers of his books are published—over 150 at last count—including the sprawling, thirty-volume Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives, 2005), which is, the poet tells us, “a collection of songs about the people I have come to know in this world.”

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