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Lord of the Schoolboys |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / BOOKS FROM ABROAD |
| Author: Bruce Fulton |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 1,384 Words, 8,022 Characters |
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OUR TWISTED HERO
Yi Munyol, trans. Kevin O'Rourke.
Seoul: Minum Publishing Co. (44-1 Kwanchol-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-111, Korea), 1988
119 pp., $5.25
Yi Munyol is that rare author - a prolific writer whose works of fiction are bestsellers yet enjoy critical acclaim. In Korea he is widely regarded as a writer of great intellectual power. Barely forty years old, he has already won two of the most prestigious Korean literary awards - the Yi Sang Prize (for the work reviewed here) and the Tongin Prize – one of only a handful of authors to have received both honors. Yi's novels, such as Hail to the Emperor, strike some readers as turgid and didactic, but shorter works such as "The Winter That Was" and the novella Our Twisted Hero show his storytelling talents to good e...
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...ocially engaged" literature. To critics and authors of the latter school, a literary work is out of date and irrelevant if it does not openly address social themes. But to Yi, the telling of the tale is at least as important as the content, and as a result, any message he may have intended is blended so skillfully with the narrative that the work transcends boundaries of time and culture. vbcrlf
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