Jo Jung-Rae et al / 조정래 / 2001 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > Short Story

Jo Jung-Rae et al / 조정래 / 1999 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > Short Story

Le lecteur découvrira la Corée au cœur de l'œuvre de Jo Jong-Nae, peut-être symbolisée par le bouillonnant personnage de " Terre d'exil ", héros de la guerre de Corée qui deviendra un vieillard brisé par la vie, après des années d'errance, pour fuir un crime qui n'était peut-être pas seulement le sien, mais celui d'une époque et d'un peuple contre eux-mêmes.   Source: http://books.google.co.kr/books/about/TERRE_D_EXIL_ET_AUTRES_ROMANS.html?id=czGA1aKptCUC&redir_esc=y  

Jo Jung-Rae et al / 조정래 / 2004 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > Short Story

Jo Jung-Rae et al / 조정래 / 1993 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > Short Story

"Since its original publication, Land of Exile has become the standard English-language anthology of post-1945 Korean short fiction. This new edition renews and enriches the first. The selections have been expanded to include four new stories." "In addition, Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton have revised the introduction, updated the headnotes, repolished translations, and appended a list of further readings. What has not changed is what the anthology offers readers: a vivid gateway to the history, society, and culture of contemporary South Korea and unforgettable stories, with the motif of exile in Korea's experience of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.

Jo Jung-rae / 조정래 / 2012 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > Short Story

This book may be one of the most depressing books in Korean modern literature, and to say that is to say quite a great deal. It is also one of the best and most touching as its depressing quality comes from a very real history, a story told in a most human and comprehensible way, and a main character who is as believable as he is tragic.. While much of Korean separation literature is depressing in a wind-up to way, that is to say that society spins the toys and they work their way to predictable ends, in Land of the Banished society is surely winding the toys up, but the toys all have their own wills, desires, and flaws, and it is precisely when all these influences come into confluence that humans do their worst work. The Land of the Banished is also a kind of philosophical existential crisis contained in a crisis of existence. Finally, in Man-Seok, Jo Jung-rae has crafted that rarest of things, a Korean tragic hero in the Aristotelian sense.   Source: http://www.ktlit.com/the-land-of-the-banished-by-jo-jung-rae/