Peace Under Heaven: A Modern Korean Novel (eBook, ePUB)
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Partner: | buecher.de |
Hersteller: | Taylor and Francis (Chae, Man-Sik; Chun, Kyung-Ja) |
Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Originally published in Seoul in 1938, soon after the outbreak of the Pacific War, "e;Peace Under Heaven"e; is a satirical novel centering on the household of a Korean landlord during the Japanese colonial occupation. Master Yun, embodying the traditional ambitions of a standard Korean paterfamilias, by being projected fast forward into a modern urban environment, caricatures the increasing irrelevance of Confucian mores to 20th-century social reality. Depicting the anomic lives of the Yun household in colonial Seoul, Chase Man-Sik, one of modern Korea´s best-known writers, uses black comedy to underscore the collapse of ritualistic traditional values in the face of capitalist modernisation. The decadence of the nouveau riche pseudo-aristocrat Master Yun is interwoven with insights into the customary bases of oppression of Korean women into the self-deceptions underlying collaboration by Koreans with the Japanese oppressor. The savage hilarity of Chae´s style lends force and historical relevance to his insight into the attitudes of the milieu in which his narrative is set.
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