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Printed/Published Work Korean(한국어)

리투아니아 여인

리투아니아 여인
Original Title
리투아니아 여인
Title Romanization
Rituania Yeoin
Title Sub
이문열 장편소설
English Title(Printed)
Lithuanian woman
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Author
Yi Mun-yol
Co-Author
-
Published Year
2011
Publisher
Minumsa Publishing Group
ISBN
9788937483974
Main Characters
Narrator, Kim Hye-ryeon
Subject/Theme
Diaspora, solitude, artist
Writer default image
  • Yi Mun-yol
  • Birth : 1948 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Mun-yol
  • Family Name : Yi
  • Korean Name : 이문열
  • ISNI : 0000000081755894
  • Works : 91
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Plot

The protagonist, Kim Hye-ryeon, is a mixed-race woman born to a Lithuanian-American mother and a Korean father. She is a highly regarded music director for musicals and conductor of the Municipal Symphony Orchestra. But behind her success lies frustration, loneliness, and a nomadic life.

Descriptions(Languages 2)
  • English(English)
  • Korean(한국어)

This is a novel by Yi Mun-yol, published in 2011. Yi Mun-yol, who is one of the master writers of Korean literature, wrote this novel on the theme of “artist.” The main character Kim Hye-ryeon is a person with a multinational identity, and the author describes her sad but beautiful her love and the fate of the diaspora.

2011년에 출판된 이문열의 장편소설이다. 이 작품은 한국 문학계의 거장인 이문열 작가가 '예술가'를 테마로 만든 소설이다. 주인공인 김혜련은 '다국적 정체성'을 가진 인물로, 그녀의 사랑과 디아스포라의 운명을 슬프고도 아름답게 묘사하고 있다.

Translated Books1

  • Lietuvaitė
    Lithuanian(Lietuvių kalba) Funded by LTI Korea Available
    Lietuvaitė
    Yi Mun-yol et al / Yi MunYol / 2014 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century