Another Mans City A Novel by Inho Choi

Another Mans City A Novel by Inho Choi

"Another Man's City "is structured as a virtual-reality narrative manipulated by an entity referred to variously as the Invisible Hand or Big Brother. The scenario is reminiscent of Peter Weir's 1998 film "The Truman Show" and Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "The Unconsoled." The novel begins with a series of seemingly minor juxtapositions of the familiar and the strange, as a result of which the protagonist, K, gradually finds himself inside a Matrix-like reality populated with shape-shifting characters.

This novel is a symbolic protest against the arrogantly mundane approach of the strain of realism that, cloaked in the guise of humanism, has dominated modern Korean fictionChoi challenges us to consider new possibilities for literature in an age when the divine is largely absent from literary art. -- Professor Kwon Youngmin Munhak sasang This lightly Kafkaesque fable from a South Korean writer presents a man who suddenly finds his world not quite right in increasingly strange ways... There is a lot of charm to [Ch'oe's] anxious novel, as if Thurber and Orwell had gotten together for a skull session. Kirkus Review An intriguing examination of contemporary life and identity -- the roles we play and the ones forced on us -- that allows for myriad interpretations. Complete Review

Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton are the translators of numerous volumes of contemporary Korean fiction, including Trees on a Slope by Hwang Sun-wōn and The Dwarf by Cho Se-hui, both published by University of Hawai'i Press. Bruce Fulton is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation in the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. Ju-Chan Fulton is, with Bruce Fulton, the cotranslator of The Dwarf by Cho Se-hui and Trees on a Slope by Hwang Sun-won.

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ISBN 13	9781628971019
ISBN 10	1628971010
Titel	Another Mans City A Novel
Autor	Inho Choi
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Dalkey Archive Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2014-11-27
Seitenanzahl	190
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.