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Three days in that autumn scrap

Three days in that autumn

  • Author(s)

    Park Wansuh박완서

  • Translator(s)

  • Publisher

    JimoondangJimoondang

  • Country

    SOUTH KOREA

  • Language

    English(English)

  • Year Published

    2001

  • Target User

  • Period

Description 작품 소개

Three Days in That Autumn is a novella that delves into the grim irony of women's life-giving capacity. A gynecologist facing retirement must reckon with the legacy of her traumatic past. Herself a victim of a rape during the Korean War who had to undergo an abortion, the doctor devotes her career to freeing women from the agony of carrying an unwanted baby. Paradoxically, her obsessive devotion to aborting unplanned pregnancies actually functions as a tool for perpetuating sex as a trade, and her own emotional dysfunction even allows her to find the sardonic pleasure of retaliation in the decrepitude of the women she services. In her final three days of work, however, she comes to recognize her sublimated longing for self-healing and redemption in her sudden inexplicable need to deliver a living life to be loved and cared for. This is a novella that delves into the grim irony of women’s life-giving capacity. A gynecologist facing retirement must reckon with the legacy of her traumatic past. Herself a victim of a rape during the Korean War who had to undergo an abortion, the doctor devotes her career to freeing women from the agony of carrying an unwanted baby. . . Reference : Jimoondang. "Three days in that autumn", http://www.jimoon.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=book1&wr_id=61&sfl=wr_subject%7C%7Cwr_content&stx=Three days in that autumn&sop=or&page=6&cate=. accessed 31 Oct 2023.

Author Bio 작가 소개

Park Wansuh

Park Wansuh박완서

Three Days in That Autumn is a novella that delves into the grim irony of women's life-giving capacity. A gynecologist facing retirement must reckon with the legacy of her traumatic past. Herself a victim of a rape during the Korean War who had to undergo an abortion, the doctor devotes her career to freeing women from the agony of carrying an unwanted baby. Paradoxically, her obsessive devotion to aborting unplanned pregnancies actually functions as a tool for perpetuating sex as a trade, and her own emotional dysfunction even allows her to find the sardonic pleasure of retaliation in the decrepitude of the women she services. In her final three days of work, however, she comes to recognize her sublimated longing for self-healing and redemption in her sudden inexplicable need to deliver a living life to be loved and cared for. This is a novella that delves into the grim irony of women’s life-giving capacity. A gynecologist facing retirement must reckon with the legacy of her traumatic past. Herself a victim of a rape during the Korean War who had to undergo an abortion, the doctor devotes her career to freeing women from the agony of carrying an unwanted baby. . . Reference : Jimoondang. "Three days in that autumn", http://www.jimoon.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=book1&wr_id=61&sfl=wr_subject%7C%7Cwr_content&stx=Three days in that autumn&sop=or&page=6&cate=. accessed 31 Oct 2023.

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