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Dust and Other Stories

About the E-Books

Title Sub
Weatherhead Books on Asia
Author
T`aejun Yi
Co-Author
-
Translator
Janet Poole
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published Year
2018
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection (individual)

Original Title
이태준 단편선
Romanization of Original
Itaejun danpyeonseon
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9780231546348
Page
-
Series
OverDrive Read

About the Author

  • Yi Tae Jun
  • Birth : 1904 ~ 1956
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Tae Jun
  • Family Name : Yi
  • Korean Name : 이태준
  • ISNI : 0000000078343821
  • Works : 17
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Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Yi T'aejun was one of twentieth-century Korea's true masters of the short story—and a man who in 1946 stunned his contemporaries by moving to the Soviet-occupied northern zone of his country. In South Korea, where he is known today as "one who went north," Yi's work was banned until 1988. His momentous decision did not lead him to a safe haven, however: though initially welcomed into the literary establishment, North Korea sent him into internal exile in the 1950s, and little is known of his fate.
Dust and Other Stories offers a selection of Yi's stories across time and place, showcasing a superb stylist caught up in the midst of his era's most urgent ideological and aesthetic divides. This collection unites his earlier modernist masterpieces from the colonial era with his little-known work penned during North Korea's founding years, offering a rare glimpse into the making—and crossing—of the border between south and north. During the turbulent final years of Japanese rule, Yi's elegant yet subdued stories championed both his native tongue and the belief in the capacity of art. In the heavily politicized environment of the North, his later works maintain a faith in the art of storytelling and a concern for the disappearance of customs in the throes of modernization. Throughout both eras, Yi focused on ordinary people: old men struggling to understand a changing world, lovers meeting up among ancient ruins, a lively widow targeted by a literacy campaign, a bourgeois couple trying to sustain themselves during the war by breeding rabbits, and more. Magnificently translated by Janet Poole, Yi's work bears witness to global turmoil with a melancholic sense of enduring beauty.

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Translated Books1

  • Japanese(日本語) Book
    思想の月夜
    李泰俊 / 이태준 / 2016 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection (individual)