Pak Taewon et al / 박태원 / 2005 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century

植民地朝鮮・ソウルの下町、清渓川(チョンゲチョン)の川辺に生きる市井の人々を活写する、全五十章の壮大なパノラマ。精緻な描写で庶民の哀歓を綴った韓国近代文学の金字塔。

Pak Taewon et al / 박태원 / 2011 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century

Written in the 1930s, Scenes from Chonggye Stream is a collage of the daily lives of ordinary people who live along Chonggy Stream, which courses through the center of Seoul, Korea. The novel is divided into fifty chapters of differing lengths. It has neither a protagonist nor a plot but instead is a naturalistic description of the intertwined lives of almost fifty characters. The streamside milieu plays an important role, affording the readers a window into the social conditions and the stark realities the various characters face during this period. Pak sets his modernist vignettes of urban life during the 1930s when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule. In spite of the hardships Koreans suffered, it was also the time when Korea was changing from a traditional society to a modern one, with the introduction of a new world order and goods from the West via Japan. Social structure also changed and evolved at this time. At its heart, Chonggye Stream is an engaging, informative, and often humorous observations and commentaries on the social conditions of the citizens who lived along the stream during the 1930s.

Pak Taewon et al / 박태원 / 2012 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century

Dieser Roman steht für eine im Korea der ersten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts neu entstehende Literatur, die das Großstadtleben zu ihrem Thema macht. Durch die Anwendung modernistischer Techniken, die sicher nicht zufällig an James Joyces Darstellungsweise von Dublin erinnern, gelingt Pak ein faszinierendes Kaleidoskop städtischen Lebens im Seoul der 1930er Jahre, im Spannungsfeld zwischen Tradition und Moderne.   Source: http://www.reihe-phoenixfeder.de/rpf/016.html