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Printed/Published Work Korean(한국어)

하나코는 없다

About the Original Works

Original Title
하나코는 없다
Title Romanization
Hanakoneun eopda
English Title(Printed)
The Last of Hanako
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > Short Story

Author
Choe Yun
Co-Author
-
Published Year
1994
Publisher
-
ISBN
-
The Series
문학사상
Main Characters
The narrator, Hanako, K, J
Subject/Theme
Memory; group; disappeared individual

About the Author

  • Choe Yun
  • Birth : 1953 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Yun
  • Family Name : Choe
  • Korean Name : 최윤
  • ISNI : 0000000115702521
  • Works : 27
Plot

While in college, the narrator frequently hangs out with Hanako, K, and J, thinking they are closer to each other than anyone else. “Hanako” is the group’s nickname for Jang Jinja, the only girl among them. But one day, Hanako disappears without explanation. Time passes, and the narrator finds out that the three boys had separately confessed their feelings to Hanako, only for her to reject all of them. Later, the narrator learns that each of them had known a different Hanako.

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

1994년6월에 <문학사상>에 발표한 최윤의 단편소설이다. 같은 해, 제18회 이상문학상을 수상한 작품이다. '바이링궐에디션(제13권)'으로 2012년에 출간되었다. 작품은 한 여성을 둘러싼 주변 인물들의 기억에 관한 이야기다. 작가는 모두가 기억했지만 아무도 제대로 알지 못했던 인물을 통해 인간의 실존에 대해 질문을 던진다.

This short story by Choe Yun was published in Literature & Thought in June 1994, and won the Yi Sang Literary Award. In 2012, it was published as the 13th volume of the Asia Publishers Bi-lingual Edition Series. The story concerns the memories that several people have of a single woman, each remembering her differently without truly knowing her for who she was. In this way the author questions the reality of human existence, and whether people can truly know each other.

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