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Land 6

Land 6 scrap

토지 6

  • Author

    Pak Kyongni박경리

  • Publisher

    Dasanbooks다산책방

  • Year Published

    2023-06

  • Category

    Literary Fiction 소설

  • Target User

    Adult 성인

  • Period

    Modern 근대

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Description 작품 소개

This is a multi-volume, five-part saga by Pak Kyongni, who wrote it between 1969 and 1994. Following the rise and fall of a landowning family in Pyeongsari from the final years of the Korean Empire to the liberation in 1945, the work is considered a fictional write-up of modern Korean history. Major events in the work include the Donghak Revolution, the Japanese colonial period, and the liberation of August 1945. 

The work is composed of 20-volumes, and the story is divided into five parts. Part one introduces the Choe family of Pyeongsari during the tail end of the Korean Empire, a period of societal transition and the erosion of Korean sovereignty by Japanese colonial expansionism. The second part deals with Korean society in Gando in the 1910s, while the third, set against the backdrop of the March 1st Movement and the Wonsan Strike of March 1929, follows Choe Seohui and the revival of her family, as well as the process of Japanese colonial capitalization. 

The fourth part depicts the various strands – nationalist, communist, and anarchist – of the independence movement, focusing on Gilsang’s release from prison in the Sino-Japanese War of 1937. The fifth and final part is set between 1940 and August 1945, and deals with the death of Song Gwansu, the dissolution of Gilsang’s independence movement group, and the outbreak of the Pacific War. 

In this universal tale of suffering and survival, the author conveys the han of the Korean people during a period of historical turbulence, as well as their enduring ability to live.

〈Land 6〉 is the second part and second volume of a five-part, 20-volume work.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Pak Kyongni박경리

Pak started her career as a writer with the novel, Calculations (계산, Gyesan) and her early work was heavily guided by her unfortunate life. Each narrator in her novels like Time of distrust (불신시대, Bulsin Sidae) and Time of Darkness (암흑시대, Amheuk Sidae) are often a daughter living with her mother who lost her husband and son, which was true with her own life. In her later work, The Daughters of Pharmacist Kim (김약국의 딸들, Kimyakgukui Ttaldeul), she still deals with characters who get over with their difficulties.[10] However, she got more objective point of view in that her fictional setting moved from the Korean war to everyday life and employed more various writing techniques and topics. Pak showed the importance of human dignity in all her works. She defined human dignity as protecting the noblest thing for oneself. She criticized a tradition, a system, and authority which cause people not to protect their dignity, and also disdained people who lost their dignity because of their desires. Additionally, her works are concerned with human isolation, absolute trust in love.

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