Scenes from the Enlightenment – A Novel of Manners
by
Kim Namcheon
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1628970685
ISBN-13
9781628970685
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint
Dalkey Archive Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 27th, 2014
Print length
254 Pages
Weight
344 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 15.00 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Scenes from the Enlightenment: A Novel of Manners was published in 1939, toward the end of the Japanese colonial period in Korea, and depicts seemingly trivial events in the lives of the residents of a small town northeast of Pyongyang: a wedding between two local families, the arrival of box upon box of fascinating new Western products at the Japanese-run general store, a long-awaited athletics meet held at the local school. But in these events, and in the changing familial and social relationships that underpin them, we see a picture of a changing Korea on the cusp of modernity. When two boys decide to cut their hair in the Western fashion, the reader sees the conflict between tradition and modernity presented not in abstract terms, but in one of the myriad ways it affected the lives of those who lived through this time of change.
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