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Scenes from the Enlightenment

Scenes from the Enlightenment
Author
Kim Namcheon
Co-Author
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Translator
Charles La Shure
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Published Year
2014
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

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

Original Title
대하
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Daeha
ISBN
9781628970685
Page
256
Volume
-
The Series
Dalkey Archive's Library of Korean Literature
Writer default image
  • Kim Namcheon
  • Birth : 1911 ~ 1953
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Namcheon
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김남천
  • ISNI : 0000000082729276
  • Works : 11
No. Call No. Location Status Due Date Reservation
1 영어 813 김남천 대-Shu LTI Korea Library Available - -
Descriptions
  • English(English)

An account of seemingly trivial events—a wedding between two respected families, the arrival of box upon box of new Western products at the general store, a long-awaited athletics meet at a local school—Scenes from the Enlightenment: A Novel of Manners is the story of a country on the cusp of modernity.

First published in 1939, Kim Namcheon’s classic text, through the close, quiet study of a single nineteenth-century village, tracks Korea’s early development from a society bound by the rules of family, rank, and gender toward a ‘new-style,’ enlightened, Wester­nised nation, complete with bicycles and newly built roads.

On the surface an elegantly turned and acutely observed so­cial comedy, Scenes delves into the conflict between tradition and progress, and reveals how it affected the lives of those who lived through this time of change.

 

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