Not easy to get in the UK. Included also in the hard-to find anthology Loess Valley. [Read More]
Booklist: Literature Fiction and Poetry (page 35)
The Cloudburst (Bi-lingual, Vol 106 – Korea After the Korean War)
Rain Shower, also called Shower in English, 0r Sonagi (in Romanized Korean), is a short story written by Hwang Sun-won in 1959 (Hwang also wrote the seminal novel The Descendants of Cain – a horrific story of greed and betrayal). Sonagi is a brief but a heavy rain shower that suddenly comes down usually on … [Read More]
Kapitan Ri (Bi-lingual, Vol 105 – Before and After Liberation
Hard to obtain separately in the UK, but you can find it in at least three anthologies. [Read More]
Barley (Bi-lingual, Vol 104 – Before and After Liberation)
Not easily available in the UK, but the story is also included in On the Eve of the Uprising [Read More]
Leaves of Grass (Bi-lingual, Vol 103 – Before and After Liberation)
Not readily available in the UK, and it doesn’t seem to be in any anthology at the moment. [Read More]
Patterns
From the publisher’s website: Patterns, by Korean poet Lee Si-young, represents the first, single volume, full-length translation of his poetry in English, a remarkable collection of his work dating from 1976 to 2007. This new collection reveals him as a major figure in contemporary Korean writing. Born in Gurye, South Jeolla Province, in 1949, Lee … [Read More]
Two Bankruptcies (Bi-lingual, Vol 102 – Before and After Liberation)
No synopsis available, and not readily available in the UK. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be in any anthologies either. [Read More]
Juvesenility (Bi-lingual, Vol 101 – Before and After Liberation)
Not readily available separately in the UK, but you can get it in the Chae Mansik Reader: Sunset [Read More]
Seaside Village (Bi-lingual, Vol 100 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces)
No synopsis available, and hard to find in the UK. Instead, try tracking it down in Good People [Read More]
Mama and the Boarder (Bi-lingual, Vol 99 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces)
Available on Kindle and also in A Ready-Made Life [Read More]
An Idiot’s Delight (Bi-lingual, Vol 98 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces)
Available on Kindle in the UK Also available in A Ready-Made Life [Read More]
Samnyong the Mute (Bi-lingual, Vol 97 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces)
Available in On the Eve of the Uprising, but otherwise hard to get in the UK. [Read More]
Spring, Spring (Bi-lingual, Vol 96 – Traditional Korea’s Lost Faces)
Hard to find in the UK. You can also find it in Modern Korean Literature — An Anthology 1908-65 [Read More]
Into the Light (Bi-lingual, Vol 95 – Colonial Intellectuals Turned “Idiots”)
Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Walking in the Rain (Bi-lingual, Vol 94 – Colonial Intellectuals Turned “Idiots”)
Not readily available in UK. [Read More]
A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist (Bi-lingual, Vol 93 – Colonial Intellectuals Turned “Idiots”)
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 … [Read More]