The Amusing Life

-Originally published in Korean as Jaeminaneun Insaengby Kang Publishing Ltd. in 1997. Translation copyright A 2016 by Kim Sae-un--- Verso title page.

About the author

Song Sokze was born in 1960, in Sangju, and studied law at Yonsei University. After debuting with the publication of ¿A Man Wiping the Window¿ in Literature and Thought in 1986, he began writing fiction in 1994, with his collection of short stories, Where Bewilderment Lives. He received the Lee Hyo-seok Literary Award, the Korea Times Literary Award, the Dongseo Literary Award, and the Dongin Literary Award. He also received the Chae Man-sik Literary Award in 2015 for his novel, The Invisible Man.

Summary

The Amusing Life is a collection of over forty stories, sketches, vignettes and fables that search out the comical, even the absurd, aspects of everyday life. Along the way, the conventions and mores of work, art, nation, love and family are examined and made newly strange.

Product details

• Authors: Song Sokze, Song/ Kim Sokze, Sok-Che Song, Sokze Song
• Assisted by: Se-un Kim (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781628971798
• ISBN: 978-1-62897-179-8
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Korean Literature; Library of Korean Literature; LIBRARY OF KOREAN LITERATURE; Korean Literature
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature