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"The Twentieth Century" by Kim Nam Jo ｜ LIST

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http://list.or.kr/content/twentieth-century-kim-nam-jo
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_list Books from Korea
Issued Date
April 20, 2015
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English(English)
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SOUTH KOREA
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Kim Nam Jo

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  • Kim Nam Jo
  • Birth : 1927 ~ -
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Nam Jo
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김남조
  • ISNI : 000000011657244X
  • Works : 34
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  "The Twentieth Century" by Kim Nam Jo Author's Profile By Kim Nam Jo on Apr 20 2015 20:38:40 Vol.27 Spring 2015   Rain, Sky, Wind, Port Kim Nam Jo Hillel Schwartz and Sunny Jung Codhill Press 2014 94pp. 9781930337763     I loved the Twentieth Century. I met my life as my betrothed and through my life-studies (fated to begin most miserably on fields of war and death) I was awakened to pure and passionate yearning and the nobility of life. I loved the Twentieth Century. I loved its shuddering, suffering, and trembling hope. I loved the sublime loneliness of my contemporaries, those talented people, distant as stars and quite as beautiful, with their superabundant civilizations and deeply thoughtful intellectual traditions. I felt greatly honored to be graced by their light. I loved the Twentieth Century. I loved its aesthetics of heart-numbing contrition, its shame and the ache of its wounds and ah, its floods of bitter grief: “Yes, I did wrong, I did wrong.” I ever so much loved the Twentieth Century whose lessons and blood, now transfused into a new millennium, reverberate through the deepest of nerves. p. 49   Twitter Facebook Google Email .

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