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Succession is EUN Hee-Kyung’s third short story collection encompassing seven of her short stories and novels. One of the pieces in this collection, “My Wife’s Box” is The 1998 Winner of YI Sang Literary Award. It focuses on a marriage that breaks down when the couple’s pretense of love can no longer hide the loneliness that resides at the core of their relationship. “My Wife’s Box” When the wife was taking her university entrance examinations, she wore the sweater her mother had knitted for her. But the sweater fitted her too tightly. Maybe that was the reason. At the hall where the examination was taking place, she created a commotion demanding the doors of the halls to be closed, when they were already were. Unable to endure the pressures of the exams, she chose autism as her way out. The society put on the first brand on her as having inferior genes. Then she marries a man but she cannot have a child. Infertility is another proof of her inferior genes. Her last test is presented by her husband. He ignores that she has an affair with the woman next door who does not have a good reputation. It is a way for curing his wife of autism, but in the end it leads her to temptation. The wife’s infidelity is found out by the husband, and he puts her in an isolated asylum. This story depicts the process where a person is turned into and designated as inferior or invalid genes by society.
EUN Hee-Kyung 은희경Born in 1959, in Gochang, Jeollabuk-do. With serene and lyrical language, She approaches the truth of life through meticulous and subtle descriptions of everyday, trivial events. EUN HeeKyung has been honored with numerous awards Dongsuh Literary Award, the YI Sang Literary Award, and Korean Literary Novel Award.
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