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Printed/Published Work Korean(한국어)

하얼빈

About the Original Works

하얼빈
Original Title
하얼빈
Title Romanization
Haeolbin
English Title(Printed)
Harbin
Classification

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

Author
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Co-Author
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Published Year
1940
Publisher
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ISBN
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Main Characters
Narrator, Eura, Rina, Stefan
Subject/Theme
Skepticism, changing reality, rejection of evolution
Plot

The narrator feels sad about the changing city while staying at a hotel on Kitai Tverskaya in Harbin. The narrator doesn’t work and instead spends time walking with Eura who works at a cabaret called Fantasia. The two believe that the reality is harsh and that the only way to get out of this harsh reality is through death.

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

A short story published by Yi Hyoseok in the magazine Munjang in October 1940, it shows the tragedy of a world without a prospect through a person who thinks about melancholy and death for no particular reason in Harbin, Manchuria.

이효석이 1940년 10월, 잡지<문장>에 발표한 단편으로, 만주의 하얼빈에서 특별한 일 없이 우울과 죽음을 생각하는 인물을 통해 전망없는 세계의 비극을 보여주고 있다.

E-Books & Audiobooks1

  • Harbin
    English(English) E-Books
    Harbin
    Lee Hyoseok / Lee Hyoseok / 2013 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1910-1945
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