Bruce Fulton
Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean
Literature and Literary Translation
University of British
Columbia
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
6:00 - 6:30 pm ♦ Registration and Reception
6:30 - 8:00 pm ♦ Lecture and Q&A
Wine and refreshments will be
served.
The dark side of rapid development emerges in The Dwarf, the
bestselling Korean novel by Cho Se-hŭi. Critically lauded since it was
first published in 1978, The Dwarf is a tale of breakneck
industrialization, the painful costs it imposes on a disoriented
working class and the spiritual malaise it brings to new elites. Cho's
deceptively plain narration with its rapidly shifting points of view
evokes the zeitgeist of South Korea in the late 1970s and his subject
resonates in a world still grappling with the consequences of
globalization.
At this VOICES program, professor Bruce Fulton
will read from The Dwarf, which he has translated into English with
Ju-Chan Fulton, and discuss its lasting significance.
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