옥수수와 나

The narrator writes novels and is haunted by a fable-like fear: chickens chase him as though he were a grain of corn, which he is not. His former wife, an editor, keeps demanding a manuscript, and her employer, a one-time Wall Street man, invites him to finish it in the apartment he owns in the United States. Once settled there, the novelist does little writing; instead he begins sleeping with his host's wife, and the old dread of chickens and corn starts closing in.

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About the book

Form

Short story

Length

383 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

South Korea, United States

First published

2011 by Munhak Sasang

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9788970128719 (original)