Author : Jung Young-moon
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781564789518
A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories by Jung Young-moon Pdf
Considered an eccentric in the traditional Korean literary world, Jung Young-moon's short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad, most often drawing comparisons to Kafka. Adopting strange, warped, unstable characters and drawing heavily on the literature of the absurd, Jung's stories nonetheless do not wallow in darkness, despair, or negativity. Instead, we find a world in which the bizarre and terrifying are often put to comic use, even in direst of situations, and point toward a sort of redemption to be found precisely in the "weirdest" and most unsettling parts of life . . .