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Ch'oe Yun



Ch'oe Hyon-mu (born 1953), better known by her pen name Ch'oe Yun (This is the author's preferred Romanization per LTI Korea) is a South Korean writer and professor of French literature.

Ch'oe's works are varied, but typically founded in particular political contexts. The Gray Snowman is told by a young woman on the edges of the 1980s’ dissident movement, and Father’s Surveillance and A Voiceless Window show the pain of families split by the Korean War and the sundering of the nation. Ch'oe, however, keeps her lens firmly fixed on the interior lives of her characters, even as they are stuck in the larger web of history. Ch'oe's narrative style, following the twisted inner world of her characters, is often non-realist. Ch'oe frequently uses m ...more

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Average rating: 3.48 · 442 ratings · 57 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors
There a Petal Silently Fall...
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3.88 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1992 — 16 editions
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3.03 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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Il surveille son père
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3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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Avec cette neige grise et sale
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3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1995
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Poétique de la soif
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1992
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수줍은 아웃사이더의 고백
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Whisper Yet
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1992
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열세 가지 이름의 꽃향기
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“Resentment is an emotion based on some kind of a bond, and its next stages are feelings of unfamiliarity and indifference.”
― Ch'oe Yun, Mannequin
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“Not suicide as intended, but suicide that finds its way in naturally as the thing that sustains life is exhausted.”
― Ch'oe Yun, Mannequin
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“That's the way it is - life is no big deal. It's like a gift that comes with a purchase. Some of them you like, but some you just can't stand.”
― Ch'oe Yun, Mannequin
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