Ch’oe Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-55467-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Weatherhead Books on Asia

Korean writer Ch’oe Myongik was a lifelong resident of Pyongyang, a city his short stories masterfully evoke in exquisite modernist prose. This book presents a selection of Ch’oe’s short fiction in translation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ch’oe, Myongik

Weitere Mitwirkende

Poole, Janet

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Dislocated Art and Life
Walking in the Rain
A Man of No Character
Spring on the New Road
Patterns of the Heart
Ordinary People
The Barley Hump
The Engineer
Young Kwon Tongsu
Voices of the Ancestral Land
Translator’s Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Ch’oe Myongik was born in Pyongyang in 1903 and resided in the city all his life. The son of a merchant, he ran a small factory while pursuing fiction writing as a sideline in the 1930s. His writing was acclaimed for its modernism and explorations of a city and its inhabitants in flux. His date of passing is unknown.

Janet Poole is chair and associate professor of East Asian studies and distinguished professor of the humanities at the University of Toronto. She is the translator of Yi T’aejun’s Eastern Sentiments (Columbia, 2009) and Dust and Other Stories (Columbia, 2018).