This is another way (other than that link you see on the right: Where to Start in Korean Modern Fiction) to gain a quick understanding of Korean Modern Literature. That way is to collect the books in the excellent LTI Korea / Jimoondang collaborative series The Portable Library of Korean Fiction. These books are now,…
The Portable Library of Korean Literature • Short Fiction • 4 • Jimoondang Publishing • Seoul In The Wounded Yi Chongjun deals with issues of identity. As in An Assailant’s Face that identity is tightly connected to the question of a face, in fact in both stories the question of what and who the face…
The Portable Library of Korean Literature • Short Fiction • 4 • Jimoondang Publishing • Seoul Yi Chongjun’s The Wounded (and the included An Assailants Face) has had me a bit stumped. (Parenthetically I should note that Yi, unfortunately, died last year of lung cancer) Together are important works, they deal with the traditional modern…