A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist (Bi-lingual, Vol 93 – Colonial Intellectuals Turned “Idiots”)

Author: Pak Tae-won
Translated by: Jefferson Gatrall, Kevin O'Rourke, Sunyoung Park
Publisher: Asia Publishers, 2015
Original title: 소설가 구보씨의 일일, 1934
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Pak Taewon wrote some of the most experimental and innovative works in the Korean language. Based on his unique and deep consciousness of the language as a medium of expression, he experimented with writing styles in order to go beyond the rationalism of modern prose writing. This intention is the kernel of Pak Taewon as a modernist. – From the Afterword

Hard to obtain in this version, but included in On the Eve of the Uprising

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