This eclectic, moving and richly enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature.\nJourneying through Korea's dramatic recent past, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between north and south and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captures a hundred years of vivid storytelling.\nHere are peddlers and donkeys travelling across moonlit fields; artists drinking and debating in the tea-houses of 1920s Seoul; soldiers fighting for survival; exiles from the war who can never go home again; and lonely men and women searching for connection in the dizzying modern city. The collection features stories by some of Korea's greatest writers, including Pak Wanso, O Chonghui and Cho Chongnae, as well as many brilliant contemporary voices, such as P'yon Hyeyong, Han Yujoo and Kim Aeran. Curated by Bruce Fulton, this is a volume that will surprise, unsettle and delight.

The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories: Bruce Fulton

Literature & Fiction

Park, Wan-suh

Oh Jung-hee

Hwang, Sunwon

Hye-young, Pyun

Han Yujoo

Yi, Sang

Pak Wanso

Kim Aeran

Cho Chongnae

Jo Jung-rae

Jung Young Moon

P'yŏn Hyeyŏng

Kim Taeyong

Chu Yosŏp

Contemporary

Penguin Classics

Retreat and regroup; hide, wait, watch, plan your next move. Stay alive. Fight or flight leads directly into the heart of the literary nervous system. Captivating work from Tanya Jacob Knox, Dylan Landis, Ashraf Zaghal, Idra Novey, Ed Taylor... Just to name a few. We hope you enjoy this issue and that, in some way, it brings out the fight in you. What will you find in this issue of TLR? Everything you didn't know you should read. TLR: Read bravely.

The Literary Review: Fight

Michael Bazzett

John Kinsella

Rachel McKibbens

Christine Sneed

TLR The Literary Review

Dan Bevacqua

Colin Fleming

Joey De Jesus

Ryan Black

Fairleigh Dickinson University

The three stories gathered in this volume display Yi, Sang's inventive manipulation of autobiographical elements, a method which expands his intensely private narratives into broader meditations on love, life, and death. "The Wings," a dark allegory of infidelity and self-deception, probes the ambiguities of perception and language through an unreliable narrator who bears an uncanny resemblance to the author himself. "Encounters and Departures," a tale of ill-fated love revolving around erotic passion and physical illness as metaphors presents a female protagonist modelled on the woman who was, in real life, the author's muse and femme fatale. Similarly, in "Deathly Child," Yi, Sang offers a witty, incisive examination of sexual mores through a fictional reenactment of his ambivalent feelings toward the woman he married toward the end of his life.

The Wings

Jimoondang Publishing Company

Wings (Bi-lingual Edition Modern Korean Literature, Volume 91)

Asia

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