Heung-Gil Yun
Autore di The House of Twilight
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- Opere
- 3
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 32
- Popolarità
- #430,838
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 4
- Lingue
- 2
The stories in The House of Twilight are set either during the Korean war (with the narrator being a child, as Yun was at this time), or in its aftermath. They illustrate the confusions of political civil war. Communist sympathisers are portrayed as being childish and self-indulgent, even as the capitalist South was evolving into an increasingly totalitarian police state. The stories focus on human interactions in domestic settings, such as families engaged in tense squabbles underpinned by political differences, or the struggles of individuals labelled as outsiders by the government. It is this focus that gives them their strength, allowing for the development of believable, sympathetic and flawed characters in relatively short spaces. I could feel Yun’s frustration with human stupidity oozing from the pages, yet he is sympathetic rather than derisory. The blurb compares him to Dickens (and one of his characters compares himself to the writer), which should give some idea about the thrust of his observations of his society. Unfortunately Yun still appears to have made little impact in the English-speaking world, and based on this collection he deserves better. If you get a chance to read it, I would really recommend you take it.… (altro)