- Daesan Literary Award 2002 · Winner
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Gaeksusallok
“Scattered Notes of a Wanderer's Sorrow” (title translated by AI)
Kim Won-u (김원우, born 1947)
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Five novellas and stories from 1998 to 2002 about ordinary outsiders, whom the author calls refugees, driven to the margins by vulgarity and sham. In the first, the narrator and a clear-eyed Mr Kim attack Korea's version of modernity and ask whether a modern novel can grow in such soil.
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About the book
- Form
- Short stories
- Length
- 447 pages in the original
- Set in
- South Korea
- First published
- 2002 by Munhakdongne
- Author's age
- 55 when first published
- ISBN
9788982815188 (original)