A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories

A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories
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Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781564789518
ISBN-13 : 1564789519
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Book Synopsis A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories by : Jung Young-moon

Download or read book A Most Ambiguous Sunday and Other Stories written by Jung Young-moon and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered an eccentric in the traditional Korean literary world, Jung Young-moon's short stories have nonetheless won numerous readers both in Korea and abroad, most often drawing comparisons to Kafka. Adopting strange, warped, unstable characters and drawing heavily on the literature of the absurd, Jung's stories nonetheless do not wallow in darkness, despair, or negativity. Instead, we find a world in which the bizarre and terrifying are often put to comic use, even in direst of situations, and point toward a sort of redemption to be found precisely in the "weirdest" and most unsettling parts of life . . .


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