Korean Literature in Translation – CHAPTER ONE: KOREA’S UNKNOWN LITERARY HISTORY
Chapters 1 / 2 / 3 / 4/ Almost every English language reader would immediately recognize the words “”Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.” as the first line of Franz Kafka’s masterpiece The Metamorphosis, a work that helped define his style and changed literature forever. Quote to an English reader…