Description 작품 소개
Born in 1933 in a small rural village in Korea’s North Cholla Province, Ko Un grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean War. He became a Buddhist monk in 1952, and began writing in the late 1950s.
Ten Thousand Lives is his major, ongoing work, which began in prison with a determination to describe every person he had ever met or heard of. It tells the stories of many figures from Korean history, as well as children and poor people, who, without his poems, would have vanished into oblivion. Green Integer also published selections from Vols. 1–10 (2005) and from Vols. 21–25 (2021) of this magnum opus.
Maninbo, as it is known in Korea, represents one of the classics of 20th-century Korean Literature. It currently contains 4,001 poems in 30 volumes. Vols. 26–30, selected for translation here, feature poems dedicated to the victims of the 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising.
Reference: Green Integer. "Ten Thousand Lives: Maninbo, Volumes 26-30", https://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?--&BookID=553. accessed 18 August 2023.
Author Bio 작가 소개
Born in 1933 in a small rural village in Korea’s North Cholla Province, Ko Un grew up in a Japanese-controlled land that was soon to experience the horrors of the Korean War. He became a Buddhist monk in 1952, and began writing in the late 1950s.
Ten Thousand Lives is his major, ongoing work, which began in prison with a determination to describe every person he had ever met or heard of. It tells the stories of many figures from Korean history, as well as children and poor people, who, without his poems, would have vanished into oblivion. Green Integer also published selections from Vols. 1–10 (2005) and from Vols. 21–25 (2021) of this magnum opus.
Maninbo, as it is known in Korea, represents one of the classics of 20th-century Korean Literature. It currently contains 4,001 poems in 30 volumes. Vols. 26–30, selected for translation here, feature poems dedicated to the victims of the 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising.
Reference: Green Integer. "Ten Thousand Lives: Maninbo, Volumes 26-30", https://www.greeninteger.com/book.cfm?--&BookID=553. accessed 18 August 2023.
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