The Dwarf (Modern Korean Fiction)

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The Dwarf (Modern Korean Fiction)

The dark side of South Koreaâ€™s "economic miracle" emerges in The Dwarf, Cho Se-huiâ€™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 of the newly rich and powerful and a working class subject to forces beyond its control. Choâ€™s lean, clipped, deceptively simple style, the rapidly shifting points of view, terse dialogue, and subtle irony evoke the particularities of life in 1970s South Korea in the presence of global economic forces.
The desperate realities of life for the dwarf, the proverbial little guy upon whose back Koreaâ€™s economic transformation largely took place, are emotively rendered in twelve linked stories examining the lives of a laboring family, a family of the newly emerging middle class, and that of a wealthy industrialist. The stories have overlapping characters and situations: the murder of a swindler, a familyâ€™s eviction from a squatter settlement, the assassination of an important executive, the dwarf â€™s fantasy of a planet where life is easier, his later suicide and the subsequent fate of his dispersed friends and family members.

Country	USA
Author	Cho Se-hui
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780824852245
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	University of Hawaii Press
Manufacturer	University of Hawaii Press
NumberOfPages	248
PublicationDate	2015-08-28
Publisher	University of Hawaii Press
ReleaseDate	2015-08-28
Studio	University of Hawaii Press

The Dwarf (Modern Korean Fiction)

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