Yi Cheong-jun’s (or Yi Chong-jun, as usual there is disagreementㅠㅠ) The Wounded is a powerful exploration of the damage done by war, and the ‘face’ that creates the wounded, both those who can identify the source of their wounds, and those who are scarred in ways that do not have clear, particular source. The story was…
Bi-lingual edition published by ASIA Publishers Translated by Jennifer M. Lee (NOTE: This is not the same edition of The Wounded previously published in the Portable Library of Korean Literature and reviewed by KTLIT here.) Reviewed by Dongmi Hwang The Wounded, originally titled “The Cripple and the Fool”, was published in 1966 to great literary…
The Korea Herald notes that Asia Publishers has just put out a 15-volume bilingual Korean literature series, titled Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature. But it seems to feature all the usual suspects and previously translated works. Really? This is getting past ridiculous. I suppose the defense will be that this volume is for “Korean Studies” courses,…
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…