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Lashing: Notes from a Prison Journal

About the E-Books

Author
Kim Dong-in
Co-Author
-
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
태형
Romanization of Original
Taehyeong
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9788993360264
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
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  • 태형
  • Author : -
  • Published Year : 1922
  • English Title : Lashing: Notes from a Prison Journal
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. The short story “Lashing”, in showing conflicts among prisoners under extreme duress in jail, exposes humanity’s selfishness, which forces suffering upon others for the sake of comfort. The first-person narrator pressures an elderly man into acquiescing in receiving a physical punishment that he had wished to appeal. The narrator’s reactions after driving the elderly man to the whipping platform and hearing his screams builds extreme tension and impels readers to reflect on the ugly aspects of human character.