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A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories

Young-moon Jung

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Considered an eccentric in the traditional Korean literary world, Jung Young-moon s short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad, most often drawing comparisons to Kafka. Adopting strange, warped, unstable characters and drawing heavily on the literature of the absurd, Jung's stories nonetheless do not wallow in darkness, despair, or negativity. Instead, we find a world in which the bizarre and terrifying are often put to comic use, even in direst of situations, and point toward a sort of redemption to be found precisely in the weirdest and most unsettling parts of life . . .

Language: English

Pages: 294

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Release: November 16, 2013

ISBN: 1564789160

ISBN 13: 9781564789167

A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories

Young-moon Jung

3.1/5 ( ratings)

Considered an eccentric in the traditional Korean literary world, Jung Young-moon s short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad, most often drawing comparisons to Kafka. Adopting strange, warped, unstable characters and drawing heavily on the literature of the absurd, Jung's stories nonetheless do not wallow in darkness, despair, or negativity. Instead, we find a world in which the bizarre and terrifying are often put to comic use, even in direst of situations, and point toward a sort of redemption to be found precisely in the weirdest and most unsettling parts of life . . .

Language: English

Pages: 294

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Release: November 16, 2013

ISBN: 1564789160

ISBN 13: 9781564789167

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