브라스 밴드를 기다리며

by In-suk Kim, 김인숙

2000년 제45회 현대문학상을 수상한 김인숙의 소설집. 정체성의 상실과 소외감으로 타인과의 관계에서 심한 고통을 겪고 있는 현대인의 모습을 포착해 '공생'이라는 주제를 발산한 단편들이 엮여 있다. 죽음 앞에서 여학교 시절 브라스밴드 멤버가 되길 원했던 옛기억을 돌아보는 주인공 장예희를 통해 삶과 죽음이란 무엇인가를 자문한 표제작 '브라스 밴드를 기다리며' 역시 존재의 증명을 희구하는 안타까움이 스며있다.

1. 브라스밴드를 기다리며
2. 물 위에서
3. 길
4. 칼에 찔린 자국
5. 바위 위에 눕다
6. 개교기념일
7. 술래에게
8. 어느 해의 봄날

328 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 2001

About the author

For her works in Korean, see 김인숙
For the economist, see In-Suk Kim

Kim Insuk was born in Seoul in 1963. Some of her works, The Road Travelled Together, The Light Nearby, and 1979-1980 Between the Winter and the Spring, are based on her experience of the democratisation movement in Korea during the 80s. After 1990, Korean society also underwent abrupt changes in the midst of the shifts in the world order brought on by the end of the Cold War. Kim devoted herself to scrutinizing the problems of compromise, fatigue, depression, and lethargy that began to appear in Korean society as it internalized the new capitalist order. Blade and Love and Story of a Woman are some of her works from this period. In 1993 Kim resided in Sydney, Australia for one and a half years; at the beginning of the 2000s she stayed for three and a half years in Dalian, China. Kim’s works The Long Road, Sydney, Standing at the Blue Ocean, and Ocean and Butterfly are based on those experiences. She has created stories that take place somewhere in the world beyond the borders of Korea. Kim’s works also include That Woman’s Autobiography, Bye, Elena, To Be Insane and Sohyeon. From the beginning of her writing career, Kim has persistently produced works that deal with the problems of the present time and that offer introspection into the human existence, without losing sight of the currents of changes in reality.

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