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The Dwarf (Modern Korean Fiction) by Se-hŭi Cho; Bruce Fulton; Ju-Chan Fulton is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The dark side of South Korea’s "economic miracle" emerges in The Dwarf, Cho Se-h?i’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. Cho’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 Korea’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 family’s eviction from a squatter settlement, the assassination of an important executive, the dwarf’s fantasy of a planet where life is easier, his later suicide and the subsequent fate of his dispersed friends and fa

Who reads The Dwarf (Modern Korean Fiction)?

Author

Se-hŭi Cho; Bruce Fulton; Ju-Chan Fulton

Publisher

University of Hawaiʼi Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781435665798

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction