Yong-jun Pak et al / 박용준 et al / 2007 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection & Library (more than 2 writers)

Como en otras muchas culturas, en Corea la literatura oral en lengua autóctona es muy anterior a sus formas escritas en chino o en hangul, la escritura coreana, y, con el paso del tiempo, constituyó uno de los fermentos que dieron vida a la literatura escrita. Postergados durante largo tiempo, los estudios de la tradición oral en la actualidad reciben la atención que les corresponde por parte de investigadores y académicos, recuperando así un sitio privilegiado en el canon de la literatura clásica coreana. Source: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=cYSgRp1pE58C&rdid=book-cYSgRp1pE58C&rdot=1&source=gbs_vpt_read&pcampaignid=books_booksearch_viewport   Purchase Googleplay e-book >>  https://books.google.co.kr/books?id=cYSgRp1pE58C&pg=PA133&dq=Cuentos coreanos&hl=ko&sa=X&ei=FT7cVKWmEIW0mwW0r4GAAg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Cuentos coreanos&f=false  

Hyun Jin-geon et al / 현진건 et al / 2009 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection & Library (more than 2 writers)

En su mayor parte, los últimos cien años de la literatura coreana han transcurrido entre el dolor y la violencia. Si bien la península se deshizo desus últimos vestigios feudales y accedió a la modernidad a partir de lacaída de la dinastía Choson (1392-1910), en las décadas siguientes todavíapadeció los horrores de la ocupación, la guerra y la dictadura. Invadido por Japón (1910-1945), el país sufrió una severa política de aculturación; dividida la nación en 1946, se vio inmersa en la Guerra deCorea (1950-1953); y aún debió padecer largas décadas de dictadura militar (1961-1987) antes de llegar a un régimen democrático. La narrativa coreana se ha visto así abocada a una doble urgencia. Por una parte, superar las fórmulas tradicionales del relato e incorporar las más novedosas técnicas narrativas; y, por otra, generar una literatura de resistencia, altamente comprometida con los valores humanísticos y democráticos que anhelaban los coreanos. El resultado de tal esfuerzo se ha visto recompensado por una importante nómina de autores,por fuertes y variadas tendencias literarias y por un público lector altamente exigente. Los más jóvenes creadores, testigos de un extraordinario renacimiento económico, se enfrentan con audacia a los nuevos retos que afronta el país. La actual narrativa coreana articula con maestría su discurso a partir de la rica memoria heredada, pero, simultáneamente,incorpora a su escritura registros novedosos que le permiten auscultar la angustia del hombre contemporáneo. La selección que aquí presentamos es una muestra cabal del progresivodesarrollo de una literatura que, aunque poco conocida en España,comienza a ser considerada fuera de sus fronteras, como una de las másauténticas y valiosas del actual panorama literario internacional.   SOURCE: http://www.verbumeditorial.com/es/libreria/Catalog/show/cuentos-coreanos-del-siglo-xx-193876   Purchase Kindle Edition >>  http://www.amazon.es/Cuentos-coreanos-del-siglo-XX-ebook/dp/B0071NMCPA/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1423728284&sr=1-1&keywords=Cuentos coreanos del siglo XX  

Hwang Sun-Won et al / 황순원 / 2012 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1945-1999

Hwang Sun-won, perhaps the most beloved and respected Korean writer of the twentieth century, based this extraordinary novel on his own experience in his North Korean home village between the end of World War II and the eve of the Korean War when Korea had been divided into North and South by its two "liberators" — the United States and the Soviet Union. In this story the Soviet-backed communist party, using the promise of land reform, sets people at one another's throats. Portrayed here is an entire community caught in a political and social firestorm that brings out the selfishness, cruelty, and ignorance of simple people, but also shows their loyalty and nobility. Compelling here, too, are a heroine who represents the "eternally feminine" for all Korean men, and the setting, the harsh political, psychic and physical landscape of rural postwar North Korea rarely glimpsed by the outside world. Hwang Sun-won is an artist of consummate delicacy and subtlety, and his writing is marked by keen psychological insight and steely asceticism. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/45CB503C-8744-4C90-8823-BB58020F64D3

Hwang Sun-Won et al / 황순원 / 2022 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection (individual)

The long life and career of Hwang Sun-won (1915-2000) spanned the whole trajectory of modern Korean history - Japanese domination, WWII, ideological strife, the Korean War and harsh division of the country, industrialization, military dictatorships and the protests against them. These events are reflected subtly in his stories, always emphasizing the resilience of the Korean people. Source: https://lti.overdrive.com/media/9204749?cid=37224

Hwang Sun-Won et al / 황순원 / 2012 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection (individual)

These captivating short stories portray three major periods in modern Korean history: the forces of colonial modernity during the late 1930s; the postcolonial struggle to rebuild society after four decades of oppression, emasculation, and cultural exile (1945 to 1950); and the attempt to reconstruct a shattered land and a traumatized nation after the Korean War. Lost Souls echoes the exceptional work of China's Shen Congwen and Japan's Kawabata Yasunari. Modernist narratives set in the metropolises of Tokyo and Pyongyang alternate with starkly realistic portraits of rural life. Surrealist tales suggest the unsettling sensation of colonial domination, while stories of the outcast embody the thrill and terror of independence and survival in a land dominated by tradition and devastated by war. Written during the chaos of 1945, "Booze" recounts a fight between Koreans for control of a former Japanese-owned distillery. "Toad" relates the suffering created by hundreds of thousands of returning refugees, and stories from the 1950s confront the catastrophes of the Korean War and the problematic desire for autonomy. Visceral and versatile, Lost Souls is a classic work on the possibilities of transition that showcases the innovation and craftsmanship of a consummateand widely celebratedstoryteller. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/C2E03043-D8EF-44B9-8A2D-E935F070AA95

Hwang Sun-Won et al / 황순원 / 2005 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > Historical > Biographical > Political > Social

Hwang Sun-won (1915–2000) is one of modern Korea's masters of narrative prose. Trees on a Slope (1960) is his most accomplished novel—one of the few Korean novels to describe in detail the physical and psychological horrors of the Korean War. It is an assured, forceful depiction of three young soldiers in the South Korean army during the latter stages of the war: Hyŏnt'ae, the arrogant and overconfident squad leader; the stolid and dependable Yun-gu; and "the Poet" Tong-ho. The war affects the men in different ways. Before he can return home, Tong-ho takes his own life after shooting an officer and a prostitute. Hyŏn-t'ae, finding himself removed from situations of mortal danger, spends most of his time drinking; in the end he is arrested for abetting in the suicide of a young girl. Only Yun-gu is able to make the successful transition to postwar life. His ability to survive the encroachments of others, exploit limited resources, and capitalize on the lessons of harsh experience make him emblematic of Korea over the centuries. Trees on a Slope will introduce an English-reading audience to an important voice in modern Asian literature. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/4005892?cid=37224

Kim Yujung et al / 김유정 et al / 2012 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection & Library (more than 2 writers)

The sixth book in Kegan Paul International's "Korean Culture Series", this volume contains thirty stories that have been selected on the basis of historical interest and literary worth, each representing a monumental moment in the history of Korean Literature. The ten stories in the first part share the common theme of the Korean experience of the confrontation between man and woman; in some stories the relationship is portrayed as innocent and pure, in others the relationship becomes more sophisticated and complex. The ten stories in the second part all deal with old Korean or the old Korean way of life - the Korea of byegone days, which is gradually disappearing in the face of industrialization and internationalization. The third group of stories reveals modern Korea in the process of change during the period of the Japanese Occupation, the liberation from the Occupation, and the Korean War. All thirty stories may serve as social documents. From the time of ideological chaos following the independence of Korea in 1945 up to the fall of the USSR in the 1980s, modern Korean literature has been powerfully swayed by Marxist ideology one way or another. Literature has an important role to play in its portrayal of the relations between society and individual people, and it has a particularly vital social function in developing or undeveloped countries. However, the stories in this anthology are not just historical documents. They represent the peak of literary achievements by great and gifted writers in the first half of this century. It is remarkable to find so many talented writers producing so many powerful works of art in a short span of just over 50 years between 1908 and 1965. This anthology is an invitation to readers to grasp how much Korea has attained in the process of its modernization. The authors whose works appear in this volume are: Yi Kwang-su, Kim Dong-in, Hyun Chin-kon, Yi Hyo-suk, Kim Yu-jong, Yi Sang, Kim Dong-ni, O Yung-su, Hwang Sun-won, Sohn, So-hi, Hahn Mu-suk, Sunwu Hwi, Kang Shin-jae, Oh Sang-won, Suh Ki-won, Han Mal-suk, Choi In-hun, Kim sung-ok, Yi Mun-ku. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/4114074?cid=37224

Hwang Sun-Won et al / 황순원 / 2015 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1945-1999

Hwang Sun-won, perhaps the most beloved and respected Korean writer of the 20th century, based this extraordinary novel on his own experiences in his North Korean home village between the end of World War II and the eve of the Korean War when Korea had been divided into North and South by its two "liberators" - the United States and the Soviet Union. In this story the Soviet-backed communist party, using the promise of land reform, sets people at each other's throat. Portrayed here is an entire community caught in the political and social firestorm that brings out the selfishness, cruelty and ignorance of simple people, but also shows their loyalty and nobility. Compelling here, too, is a heroine who represents the "eternally feminine" for all Korean men, and the setting, the harsh political, psychic and physical landscape of rural postwar North Korea rarely glimpsed by the outside world. Hwang Sun-won is an artist of consummate delicacy and subtlety, and his writing is marked by keen psychological insight and steely asceticism. While three collections of his short stories have appeared in Hong Kong and the West, "The Descendants of Cain" is the first English translation of a Hwang Sun-won novel. Source : https://lti.overdrive.com/media/4122025?cid=37224

Ch`ae Man-Sik et al / 채만식 et al / 1998 / -

A Ready Made Life is the first volume of early modern Korean fiction to appear in English in the U.S. Written between 1921 and 1943, the sixteen stories are an excellent introduction to the riches of modern Korean fiction. They reveal a variety of settings, voices, styles, and thematic concerns, and the best of them, masterpieces written mainly in the mid-1930s, display an impressive artistic maturity. Included among these authors are Hwang Sun-won, modern Korea's greatest short story writer; Kim Tong-in, regarded by many as the author who best captures the essence of the Korean identity; Ch'ae Man-shik, a master of irony; Yi Sang, a prominent modernist; Kim Yu-jong, whose stories are marked by a unique blend of earthy humor and compassion; Yi Kwang-su and Kim Tong-ni, modernizers of the language of twentieth-century Korean fiction; and Yi Ki-yúng, Yi T'ae-jun, and Pak T'ae-won, three writers who migrated to North Korea shortly after Liberation in 1945 and whose works were subsequently banned in South Korea until democratization in the late 1980s. One way of reading the stories, all of which were written during the Japanese occupation, is that beneath their often oppressive and gloomy surface lies an anticolonial subtext. They can also be read as a collective record of a people whose life choices were severely restricted, not just by colonization, but by education (either too little or too much, as the title story shows) and by a highly structured society that had little tolerance for those who overstepped its boundaries. Life was unremittingly onerous for many Koreans during this period, whatever their social background. In the stories, educated city folk fare little better than farmers and laborers. A Ready-Made Life will provide scholars and students with crucial access to the literature of Korea's colonial period. A generous opening essay discusses the collection in the context of modern Korean literary history, and short introductions precede each story. Here is a richly diverse testament to a modern literature that is poised to assume a long overdue place in world literature. Source: https://lti.overdrive.com/media/4004892?cid=37224

Yi Kwang-Su et al / 이광수 et al / 2015 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Complete Collection > Library > Complete Collection & Library (more than 2 writers)

This anthology of short stories reflects the writers' shared core experience of Korea's trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War, to a modernizing society. Three stories have been added to the original edition. Source: https://lti.overdrive.com/media/4123934?cid=37224