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No One Writes Back

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  • Author(s)

    Jang Eun-Jin장은진

  • Translator(s)

  • Publisher

    DALKEY ARCHIVEDALKEY ARCHIVE

  • Country

    UNITED STATES

  • Language

    English(English)

  • Year Published

    2013

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 순수소설

  • Target User

    Adult 성인

  • Period

    Contemporary 현대

Description 작품 소개

Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque. Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque. No One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road. Rather than learn the names of his fellow travelers—or invent nicknames for them—he assigns them numbers. There’s 239, for example, who once dreamed of being a poet, but who now only reads her poems to a friend in a coma; there’s 109, who rides trains endlessly because of a broken heart; and 32, who’s already decided to commit suicide. The narrator writes letters to these men and women in the hope that he can console them in their various miseries, as well as keep a record of his own experiences: “A letter is like a journal entry for me, except that it gets sent to other people.” No one writes back, of course, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t some hope that one of them will, someday . . . Reference : DALKEY ARCHIVE. "No One Writes Back", https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/no-one-writes-back?_pos=1&_psq=No%20One%20Writes%20Back&_ss=e&_v=1.0. accessed 24 Oct 2023.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Jang Eun-Jin

Jang Eun-Jin장은진

Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque. Communication—or the lack thereof—is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque. No One Writes Back is the story of a young man who leaves home with only his blind dog, an MP3 player, and a book, traveling aimlessly for three years, from motel to motel, meeting people on the road. Rather than learn the names of his fellow travelers—or invent nicknames for them—he assigns them numbers. There’s 239, for example, who once dreamed of being a poet, but who now only reads her poems to a friend in a coma; there’s 109, who rides trains endlessly because of a broken heart; and 32, who’s already decided to commit suicide. The narrator writes letters to these men and women in the hope that he can console them in their various miseries, as well as keep a record of his own experiences: “A letter is like a journal entry for me, except that it gets sent to other people.” No one writes back, of course, but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t some hope that one of them will, someday . . . Reference : DALKEY ARCHIVE. "No One Writes Back", https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/no-one-writes-back?_pos=1&_psq=No%20One%20Writes%20Back&_ss=e&_v=1.0. accessed 24 Oct 2023.

Original Work 원작

No One Writes Back

아무도 편지하지 않다

By Jang Eun-Jin (장은진)

Munhakdongne Publishing Corp. (2009)

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