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Printed/Published Work Korean(한국어)

침묵으로 지은 집

About the Original Works

침묵으로 지은 집
Original Title
침묵으로 지은 집
Title Romanization
Chimmugeuro jieun jip
English Title(Printed)
House of Silence
Classification

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

Author
Jo Eun
Co-Author
-
Published Year
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Publisher
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ISBN
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Main Characters
The narrator
Subject/Theme
Korean War; redacted lives of women; absent father; tragedy of history

About the Author

Writer default image
  • Jo Eun
  • Birth : - ~ Unknown
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Eun
  • Family Name : Jo
  • Korean Name : 조은
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 2
Plot

The narrator investigates old stories and rumors from the past, such as those surrounding Ga Huidong’s aunt, whose second husband died three months into their marriage; the classmate who defected to North Korea while serving in the military; and a younger brother and his fiancée, the former having died under suspicious circumstances after being forcibly conscripted because of his brother’s involvement in protests against the Yushin reforms. The narrator makes a record of these tragic, forgotten stories, each indirectly connected to events in modern Korean history.

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

2003년 출간된 조은의 장편소설이다. 작가는 한국전쟁과 아버지의 부재를 경험한 주인공을 통해 전쟁의 상처뿐 아니라 고통스러운 여성의 삶을 조명하고 있다. 기록되지 못하고 '지워지는 여성의 서사'를 한국현대사의 비극을 통해 그려낸 작품은 여성학자이며 사회학자인 작가의 문제의식이 반영된 것이라고 할 수 있다.

This novel by Jo Eun was published in 2003. The author, a sociologist and scholar of women’s studies, depicts both the wounds of the war and the redacted narratives of women by writing from the point of view of a main character with an absent father and firsthand experience of the Korean War.

Translated Books1

  • 沈黙で建てた家
    Japanese(日本語) Book
    沈黙で建てた家
    Jo Eun et al / 曹恩 / 2004 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century
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