Cho Se-hee et al / 조세희 / 2000 / -

Hyun Jin-geon et al / 현진건 et al / 2005 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection & Library (more than 2 writers)

To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses political borders. By inlcuding stories from neglected female, North Korean, and wolbuk writers (those who migrated to the North after 1945 and whose works were widely banned in South Korea) and by bringing politically engaged works together with experimental ones, this anthology articulates the ruptures and resolutions that have makred the peninsula. From sketches of desperate peasants in straitened circumstances to fast-moving, visceral tales of contemporary South Korea, the works in this collection bear witness to the dramatic transformations and events in twentieth-century Korean history, including Japanese colonial rule, civil war, and economic modernization in the South. The writers explore these developments through a variety of literary and political lenses, revealing wtih precision and poignancy their impact on Korean society and the lives of ordinary Koreans. This anthology includes an introduction, which synthesizes the key developments in modern Korean literature, and a comprehensive bibliography of Korean fiction in translation   http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Korean-Fiction-Bruce-Fulton/dp/0231135130/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1437532411&sr=1-1&keywords=0231135130&pebp=1437532414313&perid=141FNT9TFYXDV5YFBXBV

Yi Chong-Jun et al / 이청준 et al / 1983 / -

Ha Keun-Chan et al / 하근찬 et al / 2008 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection & Library (more than 2 writers)

Without question, literature is the best place to start knowing and understanding one another. For isn't there a real fascinating connection between writers and place - where people come from and where they go? A very large part of a nation's writing is the story of its roots in a place and when Koreans come to our country, they bring with them the story of their roots in Korea.     Source: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9813879-reading-korea

Cho Se-hee et al / 조세희 / 2002 / -

Cho Se-hee et al / 조세희 / 2006 / -

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.

Cho Se-hee et al / 조세희 / 1991 / -

Kyung Ran et al / 조경란 et al / 2002 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Cho Se-hee et al / 조세희 / 1997 / -

Cho Se-hee et al / 조세희 / 1995 / -

" Nous sommes tous des nains ", constate un jour, accablée, l'une des héroïnes de ce livre. Et de fait, dans ce quartier de Séoul qui porte, par une étrange dérision, le nom de " District du Bonheur ", sont rassemblés les humiliés et les offensés d'une société livrée au capitalisme sauvage et à la violence de toutes les spéculations. Véritable radiographie des plus mauvais jours de l'expansion coréenne, ce roman en forme de récits est une œuvre forte, hyperréaliste, travaillée par une écriture qui saisit, révèle, fixe, stigmatise les attitudes et les comportements avec l'obsession d'éclairer d'une même et cruelle vérité l'injustice et la solidarité, la douceur et la douleur qui sont le lot des misérables. À bien des égards poignante, l'histoire du nain et de ses compagnons d'infortune fait résonner une des voix les plus engagées de la littérature coréenne.   Source: https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=NvAAPgAACAAJ&dq=274270