A ready-made life : early masters of modern Korean fiction /
A Ready Made Life is the first volume of early modern Korean fiction to appear in English in the U.S. Written between 1921 and 1943, the sixteen stories are an excellent introduction to the riches of modern Korean fiction. They reveal a variety of settings, voices, styles, and thematic concerns, and...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
©1998.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqr9r |
Table of Contents:
- A society that drives you to drink / Hyŏn Chin-gŏn
- The lady barber / Na To-hyang
- A tale of rats / Yi Ki-yŏng
- The rotary press / Yŏm Sang-sŏp
- An idiot's delight / Yi T'ae-jun
- A ready-made life / Ch'ae Man-shik
- The photograph and the letter / Kim Tong-in
- Mama and the boarder / Chu Yo sŏp
- A descendant of the Hwarang / Kim Tong-ni
- Wife / Kim Yu-jŏng
- When the buckwheat blooms / Yi Hyo-sŏk
- Mystery woman / Yi Kwang-su
- The haunted house
- Ch'oe Chŏng-hŭi
- The barbershop boy / Pak T'ae wŏn
- Phantom illusion / Yi Sang
- The mule / Hwang Sun-wŏn.