A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction

by Bruce Fulton and Kim Chong-Un

Book Overview

A Ready Made Life is the first volume of early modern Korean fiction to appear in English in the U.S. Written between 1921 and 1943, the sixteen stories are an excellent introduction to the riches of modern Korean fiction. They reveal a variety of settings, voices, styles, and thematic concerns, and the best of them, masterpieces written mainly in the mid-1930s, display an impressive artistic maturity. Included among these authors are Hwang Sun-won,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824820711
• ISBN13: 9780824820718
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"