The Reverse Side of Life - Seung-U, Lee
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A journalist is asked to write an article about one of South Korea's most unique writers, Bak Bugil. He begins to carefully reconstruct Bak's childhood through his novels, press articles and interviews. Bak lives with his parent's relations, but is forbidden to go near a Persimmon tree that stands near a hut on the property. Bak disobeys the order and is repeatedly rebuked and beaten. But an encounter with the inhabitant of the hut changes his life forever. Dealing with childhood shame. abandonment, rebellion, first love, and religious experimentation, this extraordinary novel cemented its…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
A journalist is asked to write an article about one of South Korea's most unique writers, Bak Bugil. He begins to carefully reconstruct Bak's childhood through his novels, press articles and interviews. Bak lives with his parent's relations, but is forbidden to go near a Persimmon tree that stands near a hut on the property. Bak disobeys the order and is repeatedly rebuked and beaten. But an encounter with the inhabitant of the hut changes his life forever. Dealing with childhood shame. abandonment, rebellion, first love, and religious experimentation, this extraordinary novel cemented its author's reputation as one of the stars of South Korea's literary scene.
Autorenporträt
Lee Seung-U is professor of Korean literature at Chosun University. He marked his writing début in 1981 by winning the Han'guk Munhak New Writer Prize for Portrait of Erysichton. He is the author of About an Eclipse, Gu Pyeong-mok's Cockroach, In the Beginning Was Temptation, Legend of Love, Magnolia Park, People Don't Even Know What Is In Their House, The Private Life of Plants, Shade of a Thornbush, Speculations on a Labyrinth, and Who Else is Inside Me? He was awarded the Daesan Literature Prize and the East West Literature Prize.