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Scenes from Ch'ŏnggaye stream

About the Books

Author
T`ae-wŏn Pak
Co-Author
-
Translator
Kim Ok-Young
Publisher
스텔리온
Published Year
2011
Country
-
Classification

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

Original Title
천변풍경
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Cheonbyeonpunggyeong
ISBN
9789810856182
Page
350
Volume
-

About the Author

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  • Pak Taewon
  • Birth : 1909 ~ 1986
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Taewon
  • Family Name : Pak
  • Korean Name : 박태원
  • ISNI : 0000000110716270
  • Works : 14
About the Original Work
천변풍경
  • 천변풍경
  • Author : Pak Taewon
  • Published Year : 1998
  • English Title : Scenes from Ch'?nggaye stream
More About the Original Work
Descriptions
  • English(English)

Written in the 1930s, Scenes from Chonggye Stream is a collage of the daily lives of ordinary people who live along Chonggy Stream, which courses through the center of Seoul, Korea. The novel is divided into fifty chapters of differing lengths. It has neither a protagonist nor a plot but instead is a naturalistic description of the intertwined lives of almost fifty characters. The streamside milieu plays an important role, affording the readers a window into the social conditions and the stark realities the various characters face during this period. Pak sets his modernist vignettes of urban life during the 1930s when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule. In spite of the hardships Koreans suffered, it was also the time when Korea was changing from a traditional society to a modern one, with the introduction of a new world order and goods from the West via Japan. Social structure also changed and evolved at this time. At its heart, Chonggye Stream is an engaging, informative, and often humorous observations and commentaries on the social conditions of the citizens who lived along the stream during the 1930s.

LTI Korea Library Holdings1

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1 영어 813 박태원 천-김 LTI Korea Library Available -