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Booklist: Literature Fiction and Poetry (page 36)
Wings (Bi-lingual, Vol 91 – Colonial Intellectuals Turned “Idiots”)
Not readily available in UK. But in many anthologies. [Read More]
Kashil and Best Essays by Yi Kwang-su
Yi Kwang-su was one of the pioneers of modern Korean literature. Throughout his lifetime, 1892 to 1950, Yi wrote twenty-seven novels, numerous short stories, essays, and poems. Most were written during the Japanese colonization of Korea until 1945. In “Kashil and Best Essays by Yi Kwang-su,” Chung-Nan Lee Kim, Yi’s daughter, translates a series of … [Read More]
I Must Be the Wind
From the publisher’s website: “‘Dazzling strokes of falling stars in falling water. I want to write poems like that,’ writes Moon Chung-hee. Thanks to Silberg and You, these poems dazzle bright in English. Here love is violent and ‘suffered, an encysted stone . . . wedged’ in the heart, and defiance trembles the soul: ‘Dress up for … [Read More]
The Underground Village (Bi-lingual, Vol 90 – The Naked in the Colony)
Not readily available in the UK, but to be found in plenty of anthologies, including an eponymous one. [Read More]
Transition (Bi-lingual, Vol 89 – The Naked in the Colony)
Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Escape (Bi-lingual, Vol 88 – The Naked in the Colony)
Currently unavailable in the UK, but you can find it in the compilation On the Eve of the Uprising [Read More]
A Lucky Day (Bi-lingual, Vol 87 – The Naked in the Colony)
Theoretically available separately, but difficult to find. Seoul Selection only seem to sell it as part of the 15 volume set, which is set 6 of their ongoing bilingual series. [Read More]
Potatoes (Bi-lingual, Vol 86 – The Naked in the Colony)
Theoretically available separately, but difficult to find. Seoul Selection only seem to sell it as part of the 15 volume set, which is set 6 of their ongoing bilingual series. However, the story is available in many anthologies. [Read More]
In a Seed: Poems of Hyang-Ah Lee
From the publisher’s website: In a Seed contains 60 poems by the author, which best represent the poet’s creative life over a period of fifty years. The poems of Hyang-Ah Lee are very touching, for they have inner strength to bravely cope with agonies without disregarding the realities of life teetering all the time on … [Read More]
Alone Over There (Bi-lingual, Vol 85 – Aesthetic Priests)
Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Sakmae and Jami (Bi-lingual, Vol 84 – Aesthetic Priests)
Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Song of Everlasting Spring (Bi-lingual, Vol 83 – Aesthetic Priests)
Not readily available in the UK [Read More]
Looking for a Horse (Bi-lingual, Vol 82 – Aesthetic Priests)
The author has such a profound respect for all life, treating animals as characters of their own, that he was led to say about his wish to write about animals: “I wait for the day I can write properly about his sad life.” If such is his compassion for an animal that has lived a … [Read More]
A Warm Family
From the publisher’s website: From A Warm Family… “ The sun is going down, and in the pureness of silence I drop the day’s anchor. As I shed the sweat-soaked clothes stars in the night sky draw near to me to be my friends, and my family.…” —Kim Hu-Ran In this collection of poems, Kim Hu-Ran … [Read More]
Grand Master (Bi-lingual, Vol 81 – Aesthetic Priests)
Not readily available in UK. [Read More]