The Dwarf / / Se-hŭi Cho.

The dark side of South Korea's "economic miracle" emerges in The Dwarf, Cho Se-hui's enormously popular and critically acclaimed work. First published in 1978, it speaks to the painful social costs of reckless industrialization, even as it tellingly portrays the spiritual malaise...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Modern Korean Fiction
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The Möbius Strip
  • Knifeblade
  • Space Travel
  • A Little Ball Launched by a Dwarf
  • On the Footbridge
  • Orbital Rotation
  • City of Machines
  • The Cost of Living for a Family of Ŭngang Laborers
  • The Fault Lies with God as Well
  • The Klein Bottle
  • The Spinyfish Entering My Net
  • Epilogue
  • Afterword: Cho Se-hŭi and The Dwarf