A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories

by Jung Young Moon, Yewon Jung (Translator), Louis Vinciguerra (Translator), Inrae You Vinciguerra (Translator), Jung Young-moon (Translator)

Overview

Considered an eccentric in the traditional Korean literary world, Jung Young-moon's short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad, most often drawing comparisons to Kafka. Adopting strange, warped, unstable characters and drawing heavily on the literature of the absurd, Jung's stories nonetheless do not wallow in darkness, despair, or negativity. Instead, we find a world in which the bizarre and terrifying are often put to comic use, even in direst of situations, and point toward a sort of redemption to be found precisely in the "weirdest" and most unsettling parts of life . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564789518
Publisher:	Dalkey Archive Press
Publication date:	09/26/2013
Series:	Global Film Directors Series , #5
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	195
File size:	348 KB

About the Author

Novelist, short-story writer, translator, playwright, and teacher, Jung Young-moon was born in Hamyang, South Korea, in 1965. He graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in psychology. He made his literary debut in 1996 when his novel A Man Who Barely Exists. He has also translated more than forty English books into Korean.

Jung Yewon was born in Seoul, and moved to the US at the age of 12. She received a BA in English from Brigham Young University, and an MA from the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.    

Translator, teacher, and artist Inrae You Vinciguerra graduated from Seoul National University of Education and was a schoolteacher for many years in South Korea, Japan, and America. She and her husband the artist Louis Vinciguerra have together translated numerous Korean novels and short stories into English. 

Translator, teacher, and artist Inrae You Vinciguerra graduated from Seoul National University of Education and was a schoolteacher for many years in South Korea, Japan, and America. She and her husband the artist Louis Vinciguerra have together translated numerous Korean novels and short stories into English. 

Novelist, short-story writer, translator, playwright, and teacher, Jung Young-moon was born in Hamyang, South Korea, in 1965. He graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in psychology. He made his literary debut in 1996 when his novel A Man Who Barely Exists. He has also translated more than forty English books into Korean.