멸치
About the Original Works
- Original Title
- 멸치
- Title Romanization
- Myeolchi
- Title Sub
- 김주영 장편소설
- English Title (Printed)
- -
- Classification
-
KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
- Author
- Kim Juyeong
- Co-Author
- -
- Published Year
- 2002
- Publisher
- 문이당
- ISBN
- 8974561786
- The Series
- 창비시선 ; 301
- Main Characters
- Narrator, father, Dalgu
- Subject/Theme
- Absence of mother, life force of nature, longing, growth
The narrator waits for his mother, who ran away, disillusioned with the authoritarian and patriarchal image of her husband, even though he doesn’t know if she swill every return home. As time goes by, the conflict between his father and uncle grows, but I grow up relying on the two of them.