Finding Hong Gildong #? – Place and Fiction

THE INFLUENCE OF PLACE IN FINDING HONG GILDONG. NOTE: This post is part of an ongoing project (because I can never seem to have too many of those!) to recount my exploration of Korean modern fiction in translation. The other posts can be found up on the “Finding Hong Gildong” menu and are in rough…

Finding Hong-Gildong: “Il-cha, I-cha, Sam-cha, More!”

Some things became clearer through experience. Any reader who embarks upon Korean modern fiction will quickly be impressed by the amount of drinking it contains. And not drinking in the Western literary modes. In western literature drinking often devolves into one of three models; either as evidence of hyper-sophistication as in The Thin Man, as…