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Clear Commandments

About the E-Books

Author
Kim Dong-in
Co-Author
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Translator
Stephen Epstein,Kim Mi Young
Publisher
Literature Translation Institute of Korea
Published Year
2014
Country
SOUTH KOREA (Seoul)
Classification

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

Original Title
명문
Romanization of Original
Myeongmun
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9788993360646
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
  • 명문
  • Author : -
  • Published Year : 1925
  • English Title : Clear Commandments
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Kim Dong-in (1900 – 1951), together with Yi Kwang-su, is one of early modern Korean literature’s representative writers of “pure” fiction. His debut work “The Sorrow of the Weak,” which appeared in the journal Changjo (Creation) in 1919, is considered the first Korean short story to focus in earnest on character development and psychological analysis. A clear, concise style is the hallmark of Kim’s writing. As the first author to adopt the plain past tense “-ieottda” style and to establish an objective stance in fiction with a third person point of view, he is regarded as having employed a realistic technique and well-rounded character types, in contrast to Yi Kwang-su, who saw literature as a vehicle for enlightenment and whose characters were more flatly drawn.