Janet Poole
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Yi T'aejun was one of twentieth-century Korea's true masters of the short story--and a man who in 1946 stunned his contemporaries by moving to the Soviet-occupied northern zone of his country. In South Korea, where he is known today as "one who went north," Yi's work was banned until 1988. His momentous decision did not lead him to a safe haven, however: though initially welcomed into the literary establishment, North Korea sent him into internal...
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