Evening Proposal (Library of Korean Literature)

by Hye-Young Pyun

Youngsuk Park (Translator) and Gloria Cosgrove Smith (Translator)

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Evening Proposal is a collection of eight stories about the grim and often faceless nature of urban life. Faintly reminiscent of Franz Kafka, the stories range from a man who discovers that his job performance has no significance while taking refuge in taking care of an abandoned rabbit to a man who finally expresses his love to discover that his expression frightened him more than his fear in anticipating the event. Evening Proposal reissues the warning that the orderliness and system that civilization created in order to confront nature’s chaos is in fact “the hell of monotony.”

  • ISBN13 9781628971545
  • Publish Date 5 January 2017 (first published 23 November 2016)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 230
  • Language English