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On the Eve of the Uprising and Other Stories from Colonial Korea by

spacestationtrustfund's review

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3.0

Translation by Sunyoung Park (박순영).

"On the Eve of the Uprising" (『만세전』 萬歲前) by Yeom Sangseop (염상섭)
"Escape" (『탈출기』 脫出記) by Choe Seohae (최서해)
"Samnyong the Mute" (『벙어리 삼룡이』) by Na Dohyang (나도향)
"A Day in the Life of Kubo the Novelist" (『소설가 구보씨의 일일』) by Pak Taewon (박태원)
"Barley" (『맥』 麥) by Kim Namcheon (김남천)
"Before and After Liberation" (『해방전후』) by Yi Taejun (이태준)

mayajb02's review

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3.0

Read for my Intro to Modern Korean Literature class. I've only read "On the Eve of the Uprising" (Korean title is "만세전"), so I'm only speaking on that. The narrator starts of kind of insufferable, but gets better as the story progresses. This was one of my favorite stories I read this semester.
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