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  

Hyun Jin-geon / 현진건 / 2014 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 21st century

“Home,” which came out in 1926, is a concise portrait of colonial Korea. This short work summarizes Korea of the 1920s, when the Japanese Empire’s colonial exploitation of the peninsula had reached its full stride, by focusing on one unique character. The narrator is seated in a train car with a man dressed in an unusual set of clothes and in short order learns that he had left his home village for Manchuria and then moved on to Japan before returning to Korea to search for work in Seoul. His impoverishment and misery serve as a dramatic allegory for the impact of Japanese colonialism on Korean life.

Hyun Jin-geon / 현진건 / 2014 / -

“Poor Man’s Wife” explores the conflict between art and daily life. A heavily autobiographical work, the story is told from the point of view of an aspiring novelist who has chosen a life of poverty and hardship in order to focus on his writing. One day, after witnessing the contrast between their situation and that of the narrator’s much more affluent relation, the novelist’s wife pleads with him to “find a way to make a living.” By presenting the wife’s position of wanting to support her artist husband while also being unavoidably bound to the desire for wealth and stability, and the husband’s observations of his wife, the story vividly portrays the conventions and hardships faced by the artists who lived under Japanese colonialism.

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

Hyun Jin-geon et al / 현진건 / 2019 / KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > Short Story

Хён Чжингон (1900–1943) – признанный классик современной корейской литературы начала XX века, по праву считается мастером малой прозы. За яркий слог, емкость и глубину некоторые критики называют Хён Чжингона "корейским Чеховым".В предлагаемый сборник вошли семь наиболее ярких рассказов писателя на русском и корейском языках, относящихся к раннему и среднему периодам его творчества. Издание адресовано любителям корейской литературы и культуры, а также изучающим корейский язык и призвано поближе познакомить российского читателя с истоками корейской современной литературы. Source: https://lti.overdrive.com/media/4903097?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