E-books

We provide e-books of Korean literary works published in over 48 languages around the world. Click here to access multilingual e-books

English(English) E-Book

Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River

About the E-Books

Author
Jung Young Moon
Co-Author
-
Translator
정예원
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Published Year
2019
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Original Title
강물에 떠내려가는 7인의 사무라이
Romanization of Original
Gangmure tteonaeryeoganeun 7inui samurai
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9781941920862
Page
168
Series
OverDrive Read

About the Author

Jung Young Moon
  • Jung Young Moon
  • Birth : 1965 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Young Moon
  • Family Name : Jung
  • Korean Name : 정영문
  • ISNI : 0000000078498081
  • Works : 15
About the Original Work
강물에 떠내려가는 7인의 사무라이
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

In his inimitable, recursive, meditative style that reads like a comedic zen koan but contains universes, Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River recounts Korean cult writer's Jung Young Moon's time spent at an artist's and writers residency in small-town Texas. In an attempt to understand what a "true Texan should know," the author reflects on his outsider experiences in this most unique of places, learning to two-step, musing on cowboy hats and cowboy churches, blending his observations with a meditative rumination on the history of Texas and the events that shaped the state, from the first settlers to Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald. All the while, the author is asking what a novel is and must be, while accompanied by a fictional cast of seven samurai who the author invents and carries with him, silent companions in a pantomime of existential theater. Jung blends fact with imagination, humor with reflection, and meaning with meaninglessness, as his meanderings become an absorbing, engaging, quintessential novel of ideas.

Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/413A4956-7322-4EEF-942B-A70A788B7CAD

Translated Books1