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Dust and Other Stories

Author
Yi T`ae-Jun
Co-Author
-
Translator
Janet Poole
Publisher
컬럼비아대 출판부
Published Year
2018
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1910-1945

Original Title
먼지 외: 이태준 단편선
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Meonji oe: Itaejun danpyeonseon
ISBN
9780231185813
Page
266
Volume
-
Writer default image
  • Yi Tae Jun
  • Birth : 1904 ~ 1956
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Tae Jun
  • Family Name : Yi
  • Korean Name : 이태준
  • ISNI : 0000000078343821
  • Works : 17
No. Call No. Location Status Due Date Reservation
1 영어 813 이태준 이-Jan LTI Korea Library Available - -
Descriptions
  • English(English)

Dust and Other Stories offers a selection of Yi’s stories across time and place, showcasing a superb stylist caught up in the midst of his era’s most urgent ideological and aesthetic divides. This collection unites his earlier modernist masterpieces from the colonial era with his little-known work penned during North Korea’s founding years, offering a rare glimpse into the making―and crossing―of the border between south and north. During the turbulent final years of Japanese rule, Yi’s elegant yet subdued stories championed both his native tongue and the belief in the capacity of art. In the heavily politicized environment of the North, his later works maintain a faith in the art of storytelling and a concern for the disappearance of customs in the throes of modernization. Throughout both eras, Yi focused on ordinary people: old men struggling to understand a changing world, lovers meeting up among ancient ruins, a lively widow targeted by a literacy campaign, a bourgeois couple trying to sustain themselves during the war by breeding rabbits, and more. Magnificently translated by Janet Poole, Yi’s work bears witness to global turmoil with a melancholic sense of enduring beauty.



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