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Article: http://list.or.kr/node/870
Journal: list_Books from Korea
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Language: English(English)
Country: SOUTH KOREA
City: Seoul
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Writer: Kim In-Suk , Park Min-gyu , Yun I-Hyeong , Byeon Hyeyeong

About the Author

Kim In-Suk
Birth : - ~ -
Occupation : -
First Name : -
Family Name : -
Korean Name : 김인석
ISNI : -
Works : 1

Park Min-gyu
Birth : 1968 ~ -
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : Min-gyu
Family Name : Park
Korean Name : 박민규
ISNI : 0000000044221463
Works : 41

Yun I-Hyeong
Birth : Unknown ~ Unknown
Occupation : Novelist
First Name : I-Hyeong
Family Name : Yun
Korean Name : 윤이형
ISNI : 0000000069758718
Works : 7

Byeon Hyeyeong
Birth : - ~ -
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First Name : -
Family Name : -
Korean Name : 변혜영
ISNI : -
Works : 0

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Confronting Danger Through Apocalyptic Literature: Kim Insuk, Park Min-gyu, Yun I-Hyeong, and Pyun Hye-Young By Jung Yeo-ul on Nov 01 2014 00:52:06 Vol.13 Autumn 2011 The Realities of a Risk Society Korean writers have been producing an increasing number of works that deal with the end of civilization or disasters of apocalyptic scale. In particular, authors who have emerged after the new millennia—Park Min-gyu, Yun I-Hyeong, Pyun Hye-Young, Cho Hahyeong, and Yun Ko-eun—have delivered straightforward depictions of the horrors of a post-apocalyptic dystopia instead of extracting messages of hope or salvation from the rubble. One common denominator of post-2000 works that depict catastrophes is their intensification of the tragic notion that reality is itself a catastrophic phenomenon. Apocalyptic literature in a society of danger stems from a radically critical view of reality. Recent works that depict virtual disasters reveal an allegorical imagination of the here and now. Through the horrendous disasters of societies yet to come, writers direct our attention to the everyday disasters of contemporary society. These works also re-investigate the question of “What is reality?” Novels that depict virtual disasters have strong characteristics of sci-fi or fantasy literature, and are also particularly experimental. Contemporary apocalyptic literature gives us visions of the future as grotesque and grim as the ones we meet in Brave New World or 1984.

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