눈길
About the Original Works
- Original Title
- 눈길
- Title Romanization
- Nungil
- English Title(Printed)
- The snowy road
- Classification
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KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > Short Story
- Author
- Yi Chong-Jun
- Co-Author
- -
- Published Year
- 1984
- Publisher
- Hongsungsa
- ISBN
- -
- Main Characters
- Narrator, old mother, wife
- Subject/Theme
- Parents’ love for their children
The narrator, who is also the main character, lives believing that he is a self-made man, who did not receive any help from his parents. One day, he overhears his mother telling his wife about her past: about 17 or 18 years ago, after the narrator’s older brother squandered the family fortune and sold the house, the narrator returned home from K city. Then, his mother begged the owner of the house to leave behind the blanket and wardrobe in the bedroom so that the narrator could spend the night. And at dawn, his mother bid him farewell and walked back home on the snowy path all by herself. In the present day, the narrator’s mother tells the narrator’s wife that she couldn’t enter their neighborhood without reserve out of shame and embarrassment. As the narrator listens to this story, tears well up, but he closes his eyes and pretends to be asleep.
Translated Books3
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English(English) Book AvailableThe snowy road
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French(Français) Book AvailableL'azalée blanche
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German(Deutsch) BookSchneeweg