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Scenes from the Enlightenment: A Novel of Manners
Namcheon Kim
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Description for Scenes from the Enlightenment: A Novel of Manners
Paperback. Translator(s): La Shure, Charles. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 344.
Scenes from the Enlightenment: A Novel of Manners was published in 1939, toward the end of the Japanese colonial period in Korea, and depicts seemingly trivial events in the lives of the residents of a small town northeast of Pyongyang: a wedding between two local families, the arrival of box upon box of fascinating new Western products at the Japanese-run general store, a long-awaited athletics meet held at the local school. But in these events, and in the changing familial and social relationships that underpin them, we see a picture of a changing Korea on the cusp of modernity. When ... Read more
Scenes from the Enlightenment: A Novel of Manners was published in 1939, toward the end of the Japanese colonial period in Korea, and depicts seemingly trivial events in the lives of the residents of a small town northeast of Pyongyang: a wedding between two local families, the arrival of box upon box of fascinating new Western products at the Japanese-run general store, a long-awaited athletics meet held at the local school. But in these events, and in the changing familial and social relationships that underpin them, we see a picture of a changing Korea on the cusp of modernity. When ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
171
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781628970685
SKU
V9781628970685
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99-15
About Namcheon Kim
Kim Namcheon was born in 1911 in South Pyongan Province, located north of Pyongyang in what is today North Korea--he was, in fact, from the area about which he wrote in Scenes from the Enlightenment. After graduating from high school he went to study in Japan at Hosei University in Tokyo, but he did not complete his studies there. He ... Read more
Reviews for Scenes from the Enlightenment: A Novel of Manners
"Kim proposed that the proper creative method for a writer was to induce insights into the material relations of society through the careful exploration of its everyday details... [He] went on in subsequent years to compose some of the most experimental fictions ever produced by a Korean writer."
The Journal of Asian Studies
The Journal of Asian Studies