소년 J의 말끔한 허벅지

A photographer makes his living from nude portraits of couples about to marry and of girls. The marriage is dead: his wife's strictly maintained youthful body seems unreal to him, and she is tired of him growing old. Only a body under the studio lights, seen through the lens, stirs him. When a petty quarrel with a boy of eighteen ends with him injured, he skips the compensation and makes the boy work for him for a year. The youth turns into a fresh focus of his desire, and as he begins to suspect the boy and his wife, he both admires and resents the boy's easy, healthy youth.

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About the book

Form

Short story

First published

2006 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

35 when first published