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  • Author

    Choi Jae-hoon최제훈

  • Publisher

    LTI Korea한국문학번역원

  • Year Published

    2010

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 소설

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Description 작품 소개

The Castle of the Baron de Curval tells eight different stories in the fashion of an omnibus film that traverse the boundaries of culture, language, genre and style in a well-woven single volume. This anthology of short stories—and a novel in its own right—begins with a genealogy of a myth of the castle of the Baron de Curval where the nobleman revels in cannibalism, eating children’s flesh, no less. This grotesque myth relives as a rumor, a nighttime story that a novelist has grown up with, a novel that is made into a Hollywood cult classic, another Hollywood remake that inspires a murder, so on and so forth. What “relives” in the subsequent chapters is, however, not the topos of the man-eater but various human desires akin to that of this gentlemanly anthropophagite. These desires, repeatedly referred to as “dregs” in the novel, are investigated through a portmanteau of borrowed texts from around the world and various tales of the everyday life in contemporary South Korea. Sherlock Holmes, for instance, investigates the questionable death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; a high school girl investigates the dubious behaviors of her classmate; an ordinary father is investigated when he turns into a murderer with split personalities; a journalist investigates the history of the formation of witch stereotypes; a man investigates a larger-than-life lie told by an old college friend; and Ernest Frankenstein investigates the mysterious circumstances of the life and the death of his late brother Victor. All of the characters in the anthology come together in the last chapter where the meaning of this postmodern pastiche is “left for curious readers” to puzzle out. This rigorously self-reflexive novel indeed suggests that we “find new things every time [we read] it,” whether these new things are the grotesque truths about ourselves or interpretive pleasure that only a masterful pastiche can offer.

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Choi Jae-hoon최제훈

Choi Jae-hoon (최제훈; born 1973) is a South Korean writer. Choi Jae-hoon was born in Seoul and graduated from Yonsei University's Department of Business Administration and Seoul Institute of the Arts' Department of Creative Writing. He made his debut in 2007 with the short story “The Castle of Baron Curval,” which won the Literature and Society New Literature Award.

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