First things first.^^ Over at the excellent London Korean Links you can find Philip’s review of Yi Mun-yol’s Our Twisted Hero.It’s a book I really loved, but Philip has a different view saying, in part: Our Twisted Hero is rather a chore to read, though it is interesting for its balanced assessment of the rights…
After accidentally mis-spelling his name, it is here, and looks like this: Cho Hae-il From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cho Hae-il Occupation Novelist Nationality South Korea Period 1941-present This is a Korean name; the family name is Cho. Cho Hae-il (born Haeryong) (Hangul: 조) is a South Korean writer. Life Cho Hae-il was born…
The invaluable London Korea Links reminded me that there are actually two titles for Shin Kyung-Sook’s new book: Please Look After Mom (USA) Please Look After Mother (UK) And LKL also provided a link to see that book cover. The covers are entirely different, as we’ll see in a minute. As a fellow who constantly…
KTLIT follows some literary links from the London Korean Links site
Just some things we’ve come across: 1) Over at Philip Gowman’s excellent London Korean Links is another chapter in his recent exploits in Korea. Interesting in this case, for a discussion of The House of Choi Champan (and general discussion of ‘authenticity’), where Toji (토지, The Land, written by Park Kyung-ni) was filmed. At the…
Philip Gowman is retroactively blogging his trip to Korea. Kim Chi-chan also, who took photos of the area K. Se-hui wrote about in “The Dwarf” (Read it, really). I was unaware of this exhibit, and now have to see if it is still in town. 😉
For the second year the KLTI is running an essay contest which is limited to citizens of the UK? The work is “Who Ate Up All the Shinga?”
Some random things related to Korean Literature
Not so much reviewed as righteously trampled (link here). Fortunately, the trampling is supported with passages from the book that reveal the reviewer to be spot on