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Tale of a Mad Painter

About the E-Books

Author
Kim Dong-in
Co-Author
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Translator
Stephen Epstein
Publisher
Literature Translation Institute of Korea
Published Year
2013
Country
SOUTH KOREA (Seoul)
Classification

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

Original Title
광화사
Romanization of Original
Gwanghwasa
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9788993360257
Page
-
Series
20th Century Korean Literature

About the Author

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  • Kim Dong-in
  • Birth : 1900 ~ 1951
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Dongin
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김동인
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 50
About the Original Work
DLKL
  • 광화사
  • Author : Kim Dong-in
  • Published Year : 1935
  • English Title : -
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Kim Dong-in is one of early modern Korean literature’s representative writers of “pure” fiction. Kim declared that fiction should create an autonomous world whose value inhered within itself. In “Tale of a Mad Painter”, Kim’s aestheticist tendencies are on full display. The protagonist Solgeo serves as an embodiment of the frequently expressed remark that “evil too can be a form of beauty.” Through him Kim explores an obsessive longing for the beautiful that is akin to madness. Solgeo is both the ugliest creature under the heavens and a painter of genius. His abnormal behavior and desperate final act to complete a work of art can be said to express Kim’s aestheticism.