The Reverse Side of Life

ISBN: 9780720612592

作者: Lee Seung-U

出版社: Dufour Editions

出版年: 2005-8

页数: 246

定价: $ 19.15

装帧: Pap

译者: Yoo-Jung Kong

内容简介

A journalist is asked to write an article about one of South Korea's most unique writers, Bak Bugil. He begins to carefully reconstruct Bak's childhood through his novels, press articles and interviews. Bak lives with his parent's relations, but is forbidden to go near a Persimmon tree that stands near a hut on the property. Bak disobeys the order and is repeatedly rebuked and beaten. But an encounter with the inhabitant of the hut changes his life forever. Dealing with childhood shame. abandonment, rebellion, first love, and religious experimentation, this extraordinary novel cemented its author's reputation as one of the stars of South Korea's literary scene.