A Ready-Made Life : : Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction / / ed. by Chong-un Kim.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Chin-gôn, Hyôn,; Chong-un, Kim,; Chông-Hùi, Ch’oe,; Fulton, Bruce,; Hyo-sôk, Yi,; Ki-yông, Yi,; Kwang-su, Yi,; Man-shik, Ch’ae,; Sang, Yi,; Sang-sôp, Yôm,; Sun-wôn, Hwang,; To-hyang, Na,; Tong-in, Kim,; Tong-ni, Kim,; T’ae-jun, Yi,; T’ae-wôn, Pak,; Yo-sôp, Chu,; Yu-jông, Kim,
• TeilnehmendeR: Fulton, Bruce.
• HerausgeberIn: Kim, Chong-un,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

A Ready Made Life is the first volume of early modern Korean fiction to appear in English in the U.S. Written between 1921 and 1943, the sixteen stories are an excellent introduction to the riches of modern Korean fiction. They reveal a variety of settings, voices, styles, and thematic concerns, and...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Translators’ Preface
• Introduction
• A Society That Drives You to Drink
• The Lady Barber
• A Tale of Rats
• The Rotary Press
• An Idiot’s Delight
• A Ready-Made Life
• The Photograph and the Letter
• Mama and the Boarder
• A Descendant of the Hwarang
• Wife
• When the Buckwheat Blooms
• Mystery Woman
• The Haunted House
• The Barbershop Boy
• Phantom Illusion
• The Mule
• About the Translators