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황동규

Hwang Tong-gyu scrap

황동규

Category
Poetry 시
Target User
Adult 성인
Period
Contemporary 현대

Author Bio 작가 소개

Hwang Tong-gyu is a professor emeritus at Seoul National University and chairperson of the literature department at the National Academy of Arts. He was a visiting professor at UC Berkeley and NYU, and participated in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. He has received the Lee San Literature Prize, Daesan Literary Award, Midang Literary Award, and Eungwan Order of Cultural Merit. His books of poems have been translated into English, German, French, and Spanish.

1. Life

Hwang Tong-gyu was born in Seoul. He received a degree in English literature from Seoul National University, where he also completed his graduate studies. He made his debut with the publication of ` Si-wol” (시월 October) and ` Jeulgeo-un pyeonji” (즐거운 편지 A Letter of Delight) in the journal Hyundae Munhak. Hwang Tong-gyu is currently a professor of English literature at Seoul National University, and has received several Korean literary prizes.

2. Writing

The early poetry of Hwang Tong-gyu illustrates a sense of longing and anticipation through portrayal of melancholic interior landscapes, as seen in `October` and `A Letter of Delight.` His `Biga` (비가 Elegy) is written in the language of a wanderer or outcast in order to illustrate the conflict between the ego and reality. This particular work marks the poet`s first foray away from the abstraction of his earlier work into an exploration of concrete reality. In discarding his prior detachment from reality, the poet takes as subject the suffering of people living tragic lives. His works `Taepyeongga` (태평가 The Song of Peace), `Samname naelinun nun` (삼남에 내리는 눈 Snow Falling on the Three Southern Provinces), and `Yeolha-ilgi` (열하일기 Yeolha Diary) exemplify the use of irony in the poet`s narrative voice. Hwang Tong-gyu’s diction and general poetic aesthetic evolved continuously throughout his literary career. Oftentimes, the poet strips images to their bare, essential core, and employs a terse and unalloyed prose style. This poetic transformation suggests the poet’s attempt to revolutionize the traditional prosody into a general/ conventional, realistic form. While the poet meditates upon death by describing a will to tame it in `Pungjang` (풍장Wind Burial), his poetic language is more flexible in `Gyeondil su eobsi gabyeoun jonjaedeul` (견딜 수 없이 가벼운 존재들 The Intolerable Lightness of Being).

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