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No One Writes Back

About the Books

Author
Jang Eun-jin
Co-Author
-
Translator
Jung Yewon
Publisher
DALKEY ARCHIVE
Published Year
2013
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

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

Original Title
아무도 편지하지 않다
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Amudo pyeonjihaji anta
ISBN
9781564789600
Page
199
Volume
-
The Series
Dalkey Archive's Library of Korean Literature

About the Author

Writer default image
  • Jang Eun-Jin
  • Birth : 1976 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Eun-Jin
  • Family Name : Jang
  • Korean Name : 장은진
  • ISNI : 0000000114536699
  • Works : 5
About the Original Work
아무도 편지하지 않다
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Descriptions
  • English(English)

Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque. Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque. No One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road. Rather than learn the names of his fellow travelers—or invent nicknames for them—he assigns them numbers. There’s 239, for example, who once dreamed of being a poet, but who now only reads her poems to a friend in a coma; there’s 109, who rides trains endlessly because of a broken heart; and 32, who’s already decided to commit suicide. The narrator writes letters to these men and women in the hope that he can console them in their various miseries, as well as keep a record of his own experiences: “A letter is like a journal entry for me, except that it gets sent to other people.” No one writes back, of course, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t some hope that one of them will, someday . . .

 

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