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The Great Retreat and Other Plays

About the Books

Author
Lee Gun-sam
Co-Author
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Translator
Sidney Soo-young Lee
Publisher
Homa Sekey
Published Year
2013
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection (individual)

Original Title
오코치의 화려한 가출
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Hwaryeohan Gachul
ISBN
9781931907934
Page
301
Volume
-

About the Author

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  • Lee Gunsam
  • Birth : 1929 ~ 2003
  • Occupation : Playwright
  • First Name : Gunsam
  • Family Name : Lee
  • Korean Name : 이근삼
  • ISNI : 0000000358418840
  • Works : 4
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Descriptions
  • English(English)

This selection of plays offers an overview of Lee Gun-sam’s attempts to portray the socially-underprivileged people’s ‘heroic’ struggle to assert their human dignity in a society swarming with time-serving snobs and hypocrites. Lee Gun-sam’s heartstring was always attached to those who remain honest to themselves and fight for their moral principles. His favorite characters, without exception, are those who adhere to the values they cherish, living in a world that asks for compromise and self-suppression for survival. The protagonists in his plays are neither ‘tragic’ nor ‘comic’: they traverse the borderline between the two realms, stereotyped by dramatic convention. Each of them looms as an everyman-figure: he or she can be any of us. As the main character in The Last Performance of an Old Actor bids farewell to his audience, we realize that his real grand ‘performance’ was not on the man-made stage that he has lived for, but on the stage of life, as all of us must. .

 

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LTI Korea Library Holdings1

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