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About the Original Works

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Original Title
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Title Romanization
Ttaengbyeot
English Title(Printed)
The Heat of the Sun
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1910-1945

Author
Lee Hyoseok
Co-Author
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Published Year
1937
Publisher
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ISBN
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Main Characters
Deoksun, wife, doctor, nurse
Subject/Theme
Impoverished rural life

About the Author

Writer default image
  • Lee Hyoseok
  • Birth : 1907 ~ 1942
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Hyoseok
  • Family Name : Lee
  • Korean Name : 이효석
  • ISNI : 0000000083795582
  • Works : 37
Plot

Deoksun carries his wife on an A-frame and visits a university hospital to treat her stomach, which has been swollen for thirteenth month. As his family lives in poverty, he hopes that his wife's disease will be discovered to be rare, so that she will be the subject of research and receive money for treatment. But his doctor tells him that a stillborn child was still in her womb and that she needs to undergo surgery. The road back home is harder, as Deoksun carries his wife home. His wife says things that sound like her last words, while Deoksun quietly trudges home under the scorching sun.

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

This story is praised as a masterpiece that realistically expresses the poverty of the farmers and ignorant humans.

1937년 잡지 <여성>에 발표된 단편소설이다. 이 작품은 농민의 궁핍한 모습과 무지한 인간을 사실적으로 표현한 수작이라는 평을 받는다.

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