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Printed/Published Work English(English)

개도둑

About the Original Works

Original Title
개도둑
Title Romanization
Gaedoduk
English Title(Printed)
The dog thief
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Author
Lim Chulwoo
Co-Author
-
Published Year
2005
Publisher
-
ISBN
917436083
Main Characters
Narrator, old man, dog
Subject/Theme
Guilt, shame, history, confession

About the Author

  • Lim Chulwoo
  • Birth : 1954 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Chulwoo
  • Family Name : Lim
  • Korean Name : 임철우
  • ISNI : 0000000116234280
  • Works : 36
Plot

The narrator is a train station attendant in the city who meet a dog in the rain one day on the way back to his boarding house. After that, he sees the dog several more times, and eventually he takes a different route because he is uncomfortable with the dog. Then, when he gets a call about his father's grave washing away in a flood, he remembers the dog that was shivering in the rain.

Descriptions(Languages 2)
  • English(English)
  • Korean(한국어)

This is Lim Chulwoo’s debut short story, which won Seoul Shinmun’s New Year's Literature Prize in 1981. The work embodies the guilt and wounds felt by the protagonist through an episode from his daily life. Starting with this short story, the author uses Gwangju in May 1980 as the main subject of his works.

1981년<서울신문>신춘문예에 당선된 임철우의 등단작이다. 작품은 주인공이 느끼는 죄의식과 상처의 기억을 일상의 에피소드를 통해 형상화하고 있다. 작가는 이 작품을 시작으로 1980년5월의 광주를 소설의 주요한 제재로 삼는다.

Translated Books1

  • English(English) Book Available
    The dog thief
    Lim Chulwoo et al / Chul-Woo Lim / 2005 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
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