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River of Fire and Other Stories

About the Books

Author
Oh Jung-Hee
Co-Author
-
Translator
Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published Year
2012
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

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

Original Title
불의 강
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Burui gang
ISBN
9780231160667
Page
-
Volume
-

About the Author

Oh Jung Hee
  • OH JUNGHEE
  • Birth : 1947 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Jung Hee
  • Family Name : Oh
  • Korean Name : 오정희
  • ISNI : 0000000120329274
  • Works : 67
About the Original Work
불의 강
  • 불의 강
  • Author : OH JUNGHEE
  • Published Year : 1977
  • English Title : River of Fire and Other Stories
More About the Original Work
Descriptions
  • English(English)

O Chonghui is an immensely accomplished author, having won both the Yi Sang and Tongin awards, Korea's most prestigious prizes for fiction. Translations of her works into Japanese, English, French, and other languages have earned her international acclaim, generating comparisons with Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, and Virginia Woolf. O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Together with Pak Wanso (Park Wan-suh), she formed a powerful challenge to the conservative literary establishment in Korea, becoming one of the most astute observers of its society and the place of tradition within it. These nine stories range from O's first published work in 1968 to one of her last publications in 1994. Her early stories are compact, often chilling accounts of family dysfunction, reflecting the decline of traditional, agrarian economics and the rise of urban, industrial living. Later stories are more expansive, weaving eloquent, occasionally wistful reflections on lost love and tradition together with provocative explorations of sexuality and gender. O makes use of flashbacks, interior monologues, and stream-of-consciousness in her narratives, developing themes of abandonment and loneliness in a carefully cultivated, dispassionate tone. Her nameless narrators stand in for the average individual, struggling to cope with emotional rootlessness and a yearning for permanence in family and society. Arguably the first female Korean fiction writer to follow Virginia Woolf's dictum to do away with the egoless, self-sacrificing "angel in the house," O Chonghui is a crucial figure in the history of modern Korean literature, on par with Kim Sowol, Hwang Sunwon, and Yi T'aejun.

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