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The Land of the Banished

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The Land of the Banished
Author
Jo Jung-rae
Co-Author
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Translator
Chun Kyung-ja
Publisher
Asia publishers
Published Year
2012
Country
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Classification

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

Original Title
유형의 땅
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Yuhyeongui ttang
ISBN
9788994006208, 9788994006264
Page
-
Volume
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About the Author

Writer default image
  • Jo Jung-Rae
  • Birth : 1943 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Jung-Rae
  • Family Name : Jo
  • Korean Name : 조정래
  • ISNI : 0000000080867085
  • Works : 52
About the Original Work
DLKL
  • 유형의 땅
  • Author : Jo Jung-Rae
  • Published Year : 1982
  • English Title : The Land of the Banished
More About the Original Work
Descriptions
  • English(English)

This book may be one of the most depressing books in Korean modern literature, and to say that is to say quite a great deal. It is also one of the best and most touching as its depressing quality comes from a very real history, a story told in a most human and comprehensible way, and a main character who is as believable as he is tragic.. While much of Korean separation literature is depressing in a wind-up to way, that is to say that society spins the toys and they work their way to predictable ends, in Land of the Banished society is surely winding the toys up, but the toys all have their own wills, desires, and flaws, and it is precisely when all these influences come into confluence that humans do their worst work. The Land of the Banished is also a kind of philosophical existential crisis contained in a crisis of existence. Finally, in Man-Seok, Jo Jung-rae has crafted that rarest of things, a Korean tragic hero in the Aristotelian sense.

 

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