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Printed/Published Work Korean(한국어)

새하곡

About the Original Works

Original Title
새하곡
Title Romanization
Saehagok
English Title(Printed)
Saehagok
Classification

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

Author
Yi Mun-yol
Co-Author
-
Published Year
1991
Publisher
-
ISBN
2868697356
Main Characters
Lieutenant Lee, Corporal Kang, Private Park
Subject/Theme
Military; soldiers stationed near the border; the fear of death; desertion; suicide

About the Author

  • Yi Mun-yol
  • Birth : 1948 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Mun-yol
  • Family Name : Yi
  • Korean Name : 이문열
  • ISNI : 0000000081755894
  • Works : 91
Plot

Lieutenant Lee, who is in charge of an artillery unit located at Icheon, is constantly worried about his men and their training. One day Private Cheon deserts the unit and Private Kim kills himself. Lieutenant Lee finds out that Private Cheon didn’t simply desert the unit; he tried to go to North Korea.

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

1979년 <동아일보>에 발표한 이문열의 중편소설이다. 1994년 출간된 중단편집<그해 겨울>에 수록되어 있다. 작품은 군대라는 특수한 조직에 속한 병사들의 다양한 모습을 다루고 있다. 작가는 변방을 지키는 병사들이 무력감과 죽음에 대한 공포, 허무함에서 벗어나기 위해 발버둥치는 모습과 그런 과정에서 벌어지는 환청과 무감각 등을 섬세하게 그려내고 있다.

This novella by Yi Mun-yol was serialized in The Dong-A Ilbo in 1979, and it was later included in his collection of short stories titled Winter That Year, which was published in 1994. The story is about soldiers and military life, and the writer depicts the hallucinations and insensitivity which come from the soldiers’ sense of helplessness and fear of death as they try to overcome the meaninglessness of it all.

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