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Relics (Bi-lingual, Vol 78 – Fate)

Author:
Translated by:
Publisher: , 2014
Original title: 명두
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From the back of the book, by literary critic Jeong Hong-Su:

Death hass been a major issue in Ku Hyo-seo’s novels. In this particular story, death goes beyond the existential dimensions of the individual; it is expanded as a thesis encompassing history and society. The writer accomplishes a difficult feat for a short story by bringing together history and the shamanistic world that contemporary novels have long abandoned. Ku demonstrates that life and death have each other at their tails – that the cycle of nature, absent of good and evil, allows for contemporary time to remain interposed within the reality of human history.

Not available in the UK at present

Entry on Goodreads.com here.

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