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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. There a Petal Silently Falls is a collection of three previously published short stories by the South Korean author Ch'oe Yun. Each story is a unique, vividly rich experience for the reader to savor as the layers of each story, and the stories within stories, are slowly peeled back and exposed. The first and title story is a haunting examination of a teenage girl's self-destructive behavior and psychological collapse in the aftermath of experiencing a traumatic event, witnessing her mother's murder. The story unfolds slowly through multiple narrations. While this story was written with the Kwangju Massacre of 1980 in mind, Ch'oe Yun has created a universal story that allows the reader to draw parallels with the aftermath of any massacre or political atrocity, be it in the past or the future. The remaining two stories, "Whisper Yet" and "The Thirteen Scent Flower" continue to showcase Ch'oe Yun's strength in writing. In "Whisper Yet" a mother looks back on her youth and the impact Korea's national division had on families, especially families with leftist political views. The last story, "The Thirteen Scent Flower", brings a modern, satirical look at government, academia and large corporations in their pursuit of an exotic flower nurtured by a young couple, who were drawn together by fate. In summary, an excellent collection of stories set in post World War II Korea.
Ch'oe is a versatile writer who cloaks stark perceptions of individual and social trauma with elegant craft, poignant metaphor, and occasional, sardonic flashes of humor.
Ch'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploration of the inner life. Readers celebrate her creative play with fantasy and admire her deep engagement with trauma, history, and the vagaries of remembrance.In this collection's title work, There a Petal Silently Falls, Ch'oe explores both the genesis and the aftershocks of historical outrages such as the Kwangju Massacre of 1980, in which a reported 2,000 civilians were killed for protesting government military rule. The novella follows the wanderings of a girl traumatized by her mother's murder and strikes home the injustice of state-sanctioned violence against men and especially women. "Whisper Yet" illuminates the harsh treatment of leftist intellectuals during the years of national division, at the same time offering the hope of reconciliation between ideological enemies. The third story, "The Thirteen-Scent Flower," satirizes consumerism and academic rivalries by focusing on a young man and woman who engender an exotic flower that is coveted far and wide for its various fragrances. Elegantly crafted and quietly moving, Ch'oe Yun's stories are among the most incisive portrayals of the psychological and spiritual reality of post-World War II Korea. Her fiction, which began to appear in the late 1980s, represents a turn toward a more experimental, deconstructionist, and postmodern Korean style of writing, and offers a new focus on the role of gender in the making of Korean history. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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