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English(English) Book

Patterns of the heart and other stories

About the Books

Patterns of the heart and other stories
Author
Ch’oe Myǒngik
Co-Author
-
Translator
Janet Poole
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published Year
2024
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

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

Original Title
최명익 단편선(가제)
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
ch'oemyŏngik tanp'yŏnsŏn
ISBN
9780231202718
Page
304
Volume
-

About the Author

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  • Choi Myeongik
  • Birth : 1902 ~ 1972
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Myeongik
  • Family Name : Choi
  • Korean Name : 최명익
  • ISNI : 0000000080792773
  • Works : 3
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Descriptions
  • English(English)

Korean writer Ch’oe Myŏngik was a lifelong resident of Pyongyang, a city his short stories masterfully evoke in exquisite modernist prose. His career spanned decades of tumult, from his debut in the 1930s while Korea was under Japanese colonial rule through the Asia-Pacific and Korean Wars and the early years of the Democratic People’s Republic. As Pyongyang transformed from Korea’s second city, peripheral to the Seoul-centered literary scene, into a socialist capital in the late 1940s, Ch’oe briefly ascended to the center of North Korean culture. Despite the vitality and originality of Ch’oe’s writing, Cold War politics and censorship, including South Korea’s anticommunist laws, consigned his work to obscurity.Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories presents a selection of Ch’oe’s short fiction in translation, including later works from hard-to-find North Korean publications. 

source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201598750.Patterns_of_the_Heart_and_Other_Stories__Weatherhead_Books_on_Asia_

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