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Conveying Cultural Nuance in the Chinese Translation of Gwanchon Essays | LIST

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http://list.or.kr/node/949
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Lee Mun Ku

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  • LEE MUN KU
  • Birth : 1941 ~ 2003
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Mun Ku
  • Family Name : Lee
  • Korean Name : 이문구
  • ISNI : 0000000025706254
  • Works : 14
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Conveying Cultural Nuance in the Chinese Translation of Gwanchon Essays   By Jin Hezhe on Nov 09 2014 07:18:30 Vol.23 spring 2014 Lee Mun Ku’s Gwanchon Essays, a serialized novel published between 1972 and 1977, is the story of a hometown that lives on in the memory of the protagonist. The hometown exists only in the main character’s memory; in reality, it has completely changed. Through the author’s memories, the reader can understand the scars of the Korean War, the abuses of industrialization, the collapse of traditional society, how relationships change over time, and the loss of hometown. The Chinese version of this novel was published in November 2012 by the People’s Literature Publishing House in China and began to attract Chinese readers’ attention. When I was translating this novel, I spent a lot of time deciding how to translate its content and form. As a result, I focused on two key points. The first key point was the “individual’s experience.” The serial novels written by other authors such as Choi In-hun, Suh Ki-Won, and Yun Heunggil are similar in that most of them reflect on the essence of life, profound human suffering, and other social mechanisms.

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    The golden phoenix
    Yi Mun-Yol et al / 이문열 et al / 1999
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    Reading Korea
    Ha Keun-Chan et al / 하근찬 et al / 2008
  • Japanese(日本語) Book Available
    韓国の現代文学
    Kim Dongri et al / 김동리 et al / 1992

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