River of Fire and Other Stories Tapa dura - 2012
de Chŏnghŭi O; Bruce Fulton (Translator); Ju-Chan Fulton (Translator)
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O Chonghui is an immensely accomplished author, having won both the Yi Sang and Tongin awards, Korea's most prestigious prizes for fiction. Translations of her works into Japanese, English, French, and other languages have earned her international acclaim, generating comparisons with Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, and Virginia Woolf. O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Together with Pak Wanso (Park Wan-suh), she formed a powerful challenge to the conservative literary establishment in Korea, becoming one of the most astute observers of its society and the place of tradition within it.
These nine stories range from O's first published work in 1968 to one of her last publications in 1994. Her early stories are compact, often chilling accounts of family dysfunction, reflecting the decline of traditional, agrarian economics and the rise of urban, industrial living. Later stories are more expansive, weaving eloquent, occasionally wistful reflections on lost love and tradition together with provocative explorations of sexuality and gender. O makes use of flashbacks, interior monologues, and stream-of-consciousness in her narratives, developing themes of abandonment and loneliness in a carefully cultivated, dispassionate tone. Her nameless narrators stand in for the average individual, struggling to cope with emotional rootlessness and a yearning for permanence in family and society. Arguably the first female Korean fiction writer to follow Virginia Woolf's dictum to do away with the egoless, self-sacrificing "angel in the house," O Chonghui is a crucial figure in the history of modern Korean literature, on par with Kim Sowol, Hwang Sunwon, and Yi T'aejun.
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- Título River of Fire and Other Stories
- Autor Chŏnghŭi O; Bruce Fulton (Translator); Ju-Chan Fulton (Translator)
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Páginas 232
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Columbia University Press, New York
- Fecha de publicación 2012-07
- ISBN 9780231160667 / 0231160666
- Peso 0.85 libras (0.39 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.1 x 5.5 x 1 pulgadas (20.57 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
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Temas
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects O, Chong-hui
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2011038624
- Dewey Decimal Code 895.735
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Citas
- Publishers Weekly, 06/18/2012, Page 0
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