Trees On A Slope (MODERN KOREAN FICTION, 1, Band 1) - Softcover

Hwang, Sun-Won

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824828879 ISBN 13: 9780824828875

Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Hwang Sun-won (1915–2000) is one of modern Korea’s masters of narrative prose. Trees on a Slope (1960) is his most accomplished novel—one of the few Korean novels to describe in detail the physical and psychological horrors of the Korean War. It is an assured, forceful depiction of three young soldiers in the South Korean army during the latter stages of the war: Hyŏnt’ae, the arrogant and overconfident squad leader; the stolid and dependable Yun-gu; and "the Poet" Tong-ho. The war affects the men in different ways. Before he can return home, Tong-ho takes his own life after shooting an officer and a prostitute. Hyŏn-t’ae, finding himself removed from situations of mortal danger, spends most of his time drinking; in the end he is arrested for abetting in the suicide of a young girl. Only Yun-gu is able to make the successful transition to postwar life. His ability to survive the encroachments of others, exploit limited resources, and capitalize on the lessons of harsh experience make him emblematic of Korea over the centuries.

Trees on a Slope will introduce an English-reading audience to an important voice in modern Asian literature.

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Bruce Fulton is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean literature and literary translation at the University of British Columbia. He has collaborated with Ju-Chan Fulton on several other translations of Korean fiction, including Hwang Sun-won's The Moving Castle (1985) and the award-winning Korean women's fiction anthology Words of Farewell (1989). He is also the co-translator, with Kim Chong-un, of A Ready-Made Life (1998).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0824828879
• ISBN 13: 9780824828875
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 197
• Herausgeber: Fulton Bruce
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