Friends of the blog, and even occasional commenters, Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton have a translation of Ch’ae Mansik’s awesome, My Innocent Uncle in the new NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD LITERATURE third edition. That would be in Volume F, out of a total number of.. well.. F.^^ A quick look through the other volumes did not…
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,…
My Innocent Uncle is a Jimoondang/KLTI volume that contains the title story, the Korean classic A Ready Made Life and Once Upon a Paddy. All of these works are by Ch’ae Man-shik who noted translator Brother Anthony has described as “perhaps the greatest master of satire in Korean fiction.” My Innocent Uncle is one of…
A review in the Korea Herald (by Clare Lee) of Chae Man-sik’s truly excellent My Innocent Uncle, which I just talked about briefly in my first article about humor in translated Korean Literature. Interestingly, it seems to hint at Chae having been a bit of a collaborator, which is something of which I was unaware.…
A reader asks about humorous translations of Korean literature (LOL, by which I actually mean translations of Korean humorous literature, not translations that make us laugh). As I make my list of translations of this kind of literature, I note how short it is. My list is complete at only five stories and in all…