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A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories

ID 455940
Slug a-most-ambiguous-sunday-and-other-stories-jung-young-moon
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Description 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 . . .
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Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
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Language eng
Page count 294
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Publication date first 2013-01-01
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