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The Love of Dunhuang

About the Books

Author
Yun Humyong
Co-Author
-
Translator
Kyung-Nyun Kim Richards,Steffen F. Richards
Publisher
크로스 컬쳐럴 커뮤니케이션스
Published Year
2005
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

Original Title
둔황의 사랑
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Dunhwangui sarang
ISBN
0893047384
Page
123
Volume
-

About the Author

Yun Humyong
  • Yun Hu-myong
  • Birth : 1946 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist, Poet
  • First Name : Humyong
  • Family Name : Yun
  • Korean Name : 윤후명
  • ISNI : 0000000113543408
  • Works : 12
About the Original Work
둔황의 사랑
  • 둔황의 사랑
  • Author : Yun Hu-myong
  • Published Year : 2005
  • English Title : The Love of Dunhuang
More About the Original Work
Descriptions
  • English(English)

Two contemporary Korean novellas in English translation. Winner of the 2006 Korea PEN Award. Yun Humyong's first novel, The Love of Dunhuang, originally published in Korea in 1982, takes as its theme the melancholy and despair common to contemporary life. The main character / narrator is unemployed after having quit his job as a magazine reporter. He barely survives on the money his girlfriend earns. One day, he wanders through the streets of Seoul while his girlfriend is in the hospital. He visualizes himself as a lion walking through the desert in western China under the moon. The duality of the character's feelings about his meaningful world of fantasy based on cultural and historical content and the unreality of his ordinary life provides an escape for this lonely individual. Ultimately, it is this duality that enables him to survive in a meaningless world. Winner of the 2006 Korean PEN Translation Award.

 

Source: http://www.amazon.com/The-Love-Dunhuang-Yun-Humyong/dp/0893047376

LTI Korea Library Holdings2

No. Call No. Location Status Due Date
1 영어 813 윤후명 둔-김 c.2 LTI Korea Library Available -
2 영어 813 윤후명 둔-김 LTI Korea Library Not Available -