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The Prisoner

  • Author(s)

    Hwang Sok-yong황석영

  • Translator(s)

    Anton Hur안톤 허

  • Publisher

    Verso BooksVerso Books

  • Country

    UNITED STATES

  • Language

    English(English)

  • Year Published

    2021

  • Target User

  • Period

Description 작품 소개

A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelist In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a dissident writer well-known for his part in the democracy movement of the 1980s, Hwang's imprisonment forced him to consider the many prisons to which he was subject--of thought, of writing, of Cold War nations, of the heart. In this capacious memoir, Hwang moves between his imprisonment and his life--as a boy in Pyongyang, as a young activist protesting South Korea's military dictatorships, as a soldier in the Vietnam War, as a dissident writer first traveling abroad--and in so doing, narrates the dramatic revolutions and transformations of one life and of Korean society during the twentieth century. Reference : Verso Books. "The Prisoner", https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/884-the-prisoner?_pos=1&_sid=bd02887d1&_ss=r. accessed 13 Oct 2023.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Hwang Sok-yong

Hwang Sok-yong황석영

A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelist In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he had fled with his family as a child at the start of the Korean War. Already a dissident writer well-known for his part in the democracy movement of the 1980s, Hwang's imprisonment forced him to consider the many prisons to which he was subject--of thought, of writing, of Cold War nations, of the heart. In this capacious memoir, Hwang moves between his imprisonment and his life--as a boy in Pyongyang, as a young activist protesting South Korea's military dictatorships, as a soldier in the Vietnam War, as a dissident writer first traveling abroad--and in so doing, narrates the dramatic revolutions and transformations of one life and of Korean society during the twentieth century. Reference : Verso Books. "The Prisoner", https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/884-the-prisoner?_pos=1&_sid=bd02887d1&_ss=r. accessed 13 Oct 2023.

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