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Kim Seungok: A Literature of and for the Self | LIST

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Kim Seungok

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  • Kim Seungok
  • Birth : 1941 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Seungok
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김승옥
  • ISNI : 0000000114805510
  • Works : 33
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Kim Seungok: A Literature of and for the Self   By Steven D. Capener on Nov 09 2014 06:02:46 Vol.18 Winter 2012 I first came across the literature of Kim Seungok in the late 1990s while teaching in the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation at Ewha Womans University. It immediately struck me as different from anything I had read before (and from anything I have read since). My interest was piqued and, later, while working on my PhD in Korean literature, I gave his work a good deal of attention. Kim Seungok quite literally burst onto the literary scene as a precocious college student in 1962 with the publication of "Practice for Life" in the Hanguk Ilbo. His career as a writer was, comparatively speaking, not particularly prolific nor long (he wrote almost all of his major works in the decade of the 60s); he produced only 15 short stories, three novellas, four novels, two unfinished works, and one collection of essays. The impact of his work on the Korean literary establishment, however, was unquestionably significant. Critics of the period pointed to two aspects of his literature that made it noteworthy: one was that his prose had achieved a “revolution of sensibility,” and the other was that in his writing was a “discovery of the self.”

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