A powerful and provocative young writer often at odds with South Korea’s literary establishment, Yun Heung-gil combines Dickensian humour and sympathy for the ne’er-do-wells and losers of South Korea’s get-ahead society. The House of Twilight, his first-ever collection in English, includes portraits of contemporary life and two striking evocations of the Korean War: the title … [Read More]
Booklist: Korean literature in translation (page 53)
The Book of Masks
Hwang Sun-won has no peer among living Korean writers. The Book of Masks is widely regarded as the greatest work of his long and distinguished career. These are revealing, gripping and disturbing stories of South Korean life today. Contains the following stories: A Numerical Enigma Blood Folding the Umbrella For Dear Life In a Small … [Read More]
White Badge: A Novel of Korea
Han Kiju is an executive in modern Seoul, a Korean intellectual who has never adjusted to his postwar existence. When an old comrade-in-arms, a coward who crumpled in battle, begins to follow him, Han Kiju must finally deal with the ghosts of the past haunting his present. [Read More]
Wastelands of Fire
This poetry is like the poet humble in its simplicity, rich in philosophy; a strange mixture of Buddhism and Christianity. Teague’s sensitive translations make this a pleasure to read. Time after time, the theme of the river returns as the best focus for thoughts about continuity and renewal, sin and redemption, past and future, time … [Read More]
The Waves
No synopsis available Review in Korean American Story: https://koreanamericanstory.org/the-waves-by-kang-shin-jae/ [Read More]
Korean Classical Literature: An Anthology
LKL says: It looks like this title has now been digitised. According to the LTI Korea website, where you can probably acquire an eBook, the volume includes works by Pak Chiwon and Yi Injik. This is confirmed by a quick scan of the contents page which you can see on the Kindle version. Hard copies … [Read More]
The Shaman Sorceress
Based on Kim’s story The Portrait of a Shaman, it tells the story of Eulhwa, a female shaman, whose son tries to save her from her world of spirits and demigods and convert her to his own Christian beliefs. The conflict between mother and son, with its shattering conclusion, reflects the deeper conflict between the … [Read More]
The Green Prodigals: Contemporary Stories and Poems from Korea
No contents list available, though according to the LTI Korea database the volume contains at least one story by Kim Dong-ni. Google suggests that the Kim Dong-ni story is The Marsh (in a translation by Chung Chong-hwa also available in Modern Korean Literature: An Anthology 1908-1965); and that the collection also includes Na To-hyang’s The Watermill … [Read More]
Traditional Korean Theatre
From the publisher’s website: A translation of the contents of the manual used for the masked dance of Korea. Readers will delight in the wit and liveliness of these dramas that depict human errors as well as the redeeming virtues of social bonds. “…a pioneering collection of Korean mask-dance and puppet plays… a fine introduction … [Read More]
The Wind And The River
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A Divided Time
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The Wind from the South
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Slow Chrysanthemums: Classical Korean Poems in Chinese
Kim Jong-gil’s personal anthology of one hundred Korean poems written in Chinese covers a period of over a thousand years, from the late ninth century to the beginning of the twentieth. In his introduction to this fascinating poetry, Kim Jong-gil traces the background to the literary use of Chinese in Korea, and discusses the features … [Read More]
The Anthology of modern Korean poetry
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Unforgettable Things
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Iyo Island
Based on an old Jeju legend seafarers’ story of a utopian island the lies just out of sight of Jeju. The story is about many things, including the loss of childhood dreams, the need to endure, and the futility of war. Source: Charles Montgomery’s review [Read More]