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47th Lee Sang Literary Award Collection
This is a reading essay written by the author, a reporter for the culture department of a daily newspaper, who selected 30 subversive books banned in many countries around the world and published them after careful reading.
From Iris Chang’s ‘The Rape of Nanjing’, the first English-language report denouncing the Nanjing Massacre, to Milan Kundera’s ‘Joke’, Ismail Kadare’s ‘Parimid’, and Ma Gwang-su’s ‘Fate’, it was widely used in contemporary society regardless of East and West. We covered books that caused a big stir.
The title of the book, ‘Bad Book’, is ironic.
The ‘bad books’ introduced in this book, i.e. banned books, presented freedom to the world and readers by rejecting the conditions and regulations enforced by those in power at the time.
The author says, “Dangerous books are labeled as banned, and even among the banned books, the truly great ones wage a constant battle within the reader,” and “Only books that cause dizziness at the end of reading are promised an immortal future.”
Jar of writing. Page 404.
It includes Cho Kyeong-ran’s short story ‘A Note’, which won the grand prize at the 47th Lee Sang Literary Award this year, as well as the author’s representative works ‘Black Dog and White Horse’ and his literary autobiography ‘Living’.
‘Let me tell you’ is a short story about Jaeseo, who runs a fortune telling shop inherited from her father in a neighborhood on the outskirts of a big city, and Miwon, who runs a side dish shop across the street, get to know each other little by little, opening their hearts and healing their wounds after a period of wandering after divorce.
This work, which delicately depicts the changes in the inner consciousness of characters living in a harsh reality, was highly praised for its high narrative completeness and elaborate sentences due to its meticulous composition.
The collection also included excellent works by writers Kim Ki-tae, Park Min-jung, Park Sol-moe, Seong Hye-ryeong, and Choi Mirae.
Literary Thought. Page 320.
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