Myŏng-ik Ch'oe

"Korean writer Ch'oe Myongik (1902/03-1972?) lived his whole life in Pyongyang, experiencing the Japanese colonial era; the second Sino-Japanese, Asia-Pacific, and Korean wars; the U.S. bombing and Soviet occupation; and the early years of the DRPK from that vantage. His cinematic, modernist prose pays close attention to the gritty realities of the city, and he remained throughout his career a meticulous and creative detailer of the lives of the marginalized...