Sang-seop Yeom (1897–1963)
Auteur van Three Generations
Over de Auteur
Werken van Sang-seop Yeom
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Yeom, Sang-seop
- Officiële naam
- 염상섭
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Hoengbo
횡보
橫步
Yŏm, Sang-sŏp
廉想涉 - Geboortedatum
- 1897-08-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1963-03-14
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Korea
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Korea
- Geboorteplaats
- Seoul, Korea
- Plaats van overlijden
- Seoul, Korea
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- cancer
- Woonplaatsen
- Seoul, South Korea (birthplace)
- Opleiding
- Keio University
- Beroepen
- freedom fighter
novelist
journalist
editor
editor-in-chief
naval officer (toon alle 7)
President of Seorabal College of Art
Leden
Besprekingen
Lijsten
Statistieken
- Werken
- 2
- Leden
- 43
- Populariteit
- #352,016
- Waardering
- 3.2
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 4
- Talen
- 1
The writing deftly captures the complexity of Korean culture and thought in a difficult period of transition. Shifting points of view reveal deeply buried passions that occasionally erupt with embarrassing or shameful results. Much misunderstanding and incorrect assuming leads to situational antics that hearken soap opera drama. Detailed description of poverty and wealth, and frequent directions given from one Seoul neighborhood to another, lend a journalistic quality to the setting that is unparalleled in contemporary Korean fiction which tries to recapture that lost era. It is a vivid snapshot of one winter in a family's life, that changes each character, while around them the world is changing and will ultimately change in ways they could never have anticipated. Our modern insight into history makes this a fascinating read: and Yom compels the story forward while revealing complicated interwoven relationships and an intricate plot.… (meer)