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The Dwarf

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Title Sub
Modern Korean Fiction
Author
Cho Se-hŭi
Co-Author
-
Translator
Ju-Chan Fulton,
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Published Year
2006
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > Short Story

Original Title
난장이가 쏘아올린 작은 공
Romanization of Original
Nanjangiga ssoaollin jageun gong
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9780824864699
Page
224
Series
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About the Author

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  • Cho Se-hee
  • Birth : 1942 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Sehee
  • Family Name : Cho
  • Korean Name : 조세희
  • ISNI : 000000007978395X
  • Works : 26
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The dark side of South Korea's "economic miracle" emerges in The Dwarf, Cho Se-hui's enormously popular and critically acclaimed work. First published in 1978, it speaks to the painful social costs of reckless industrialization, even as it tellingly portrays the spiritual malaise of the newly rich and powerful and a working class subject to forces beyond its control. Cho's lean, clipped, deceptively simple style, the rapidly shifting points of view, terse dialogue, and subtle irony evoke the particularities of life in 1970s South Korea in the presence of global economic forces.

The desperate realities of life for the dwarf, the proverbial little guy upon whose back Korea's economic transformation largely took place, are emotively rendered in twelve linked stories examining the lives of a laboring family, a family of the newly emerging middle class, and that of a wealthy industrialist. The stories have overlapping characters and situations: the murder of a swindler, a family's eviction from a squatter settlement, the assassination of an important executive, the dwarf 's fantasy of a planet where life is easier, his later suicide and the subsequent fate of his dispersed friends and family members.

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