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토지 #1
토지 1 - 1부 1권
토지 1부는 동학혁명이 실패로 끝난 후인 1897년 한가위로부터 1905년 을사보호조약이 체결된 이후까지 약 10년 동안 경남 하동의 평사리라는 마을에서 5대째 대지주로 군림하고 있는 '최참판댁'을 중심으로 하여 일어난 사건들을 다루고 있다. 갖가지 사건들이 최씨 집안 인물들과 하인, 마을 농민들, 다른 양반집 인물들의 생기 있고 귀기 어린 탁월한 묘사 속에서 매우 극적이고 생동감있게 그려진다. 1부는 어느 사건 하나 독립된 채 내버려두지 않고 그것을 등장인물들의 관계의 형성과 발전에 연결짓고 있는데, 이는 대하소설 토지의 문학적 완벽성을 입증하는 한 사례이다.
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434 pages, Paperback
Published September 15, 1995
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Pak Kyongni
35 books40 followersPak Kyongni (December 2, 1926 – May 5, 2008) was a prominent South Korean novelist. She was born in Tongyeong, South Gyeongsang Province, and later lived in Wonju Gangwon Province. Pak made her literary debut in 1955, with Gyesan (계산, Calculations). She is, however, most well known for her 16-volume story Toji (토지, The Land), an epic saga set on the turbulent history of Korea during 19th and 20th century. It was later adapted into a movie, a television series and an opera.
Pak Kyongni died from lung cancer at the age of 81 on May 5, 2008 and many literary men recollected her as a guide for their literary works and life as a writer. She was posthumously awarded the country's top medal by the newly created Culture Ministry of South Korea for her promoting South Korean arts.
Pak Kyongni died from lung cancer at the age of 81 on May 5, 2008 and many literary men recollected her as a guide for their literary works and life as a writer. She was posthumously awarded the country's top medal by the newly created Culture Ministry of South Korea for her promoting South Korean arts.
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November 27, 2018
Park, Kyungni is my most favorite Korean writer. When I had read 'the Daughters of Pharmacist Kim,' in my youth for the first time out of her works, I liked her novel a lot. Since then, I read most of her books, whenever available, but I had no chance to read twenty volumes of 'Land' because I came to the U.S. before the books were published. It's said that it took 25 years for Park to complete 20 volumes.
When I visited my mother in Korea this year, in October,2018, I found there were 20 complete volumes, Land, at nearby library of my mother's house. I was very excited when I borrowed books with my nephew's library card. I was very tired after taking care of my mother who has a severe dementia, but I kept reading instead of resting while she was sleeping.
The volume 1 starts with novelist, Jisoo Choi's family, living in countryside in the early 20th century just before Korea was ruled by Japan. Japan is preparing colonization of Korea; Japanese grants land to Japanese settlers.
For those who want to know about the books 'Land' more, I copied the book introduction at Amazon.com. and I attached below since I cannot write better than that, and I found nobody wrote a book review of 'Land.'
.... it possesses both the formal dimensions and the high seriousness of epic, is set in a period during which Japan held strong sway over Korea, regulating its business and industry and making arbitrary land grants to Japanese settlers. At the heart of the novel is a series of conflicts between Korean conservatives too enervated to oppose Japan's acquisitive energies and radical native insurgents. Their resistance culminated in the Dong Hak rebellion, a watershed historical event that casts long shadows over the intricately interwoven fates of Kyong-ni's vividly drawn characters--most especially Choi Chisoo, an arrogant, wealthy landowner, hated and envied by his neighbors and servants, and at continual odds with his embittered wife, whose ``failure'' to bear him a son provokes Choi's bitter displeasure and sets in motion a chain of events leading to his downfall. The author employs a kind of Upstairs, Downstairs structure, in which nondescript villagers and assorted second-class citizens observe, comment on, and in some ways parallel the lives of their ``betters.'' Among the most memorable are Pyongsan, an impoverished landowner waiting patiently through half a lifetime to be revenged on the avaricious Choi; the handsome villager Yongi; and the scheming Guinyo, the ambitious housemaid whose plan to rise above her station precipitates chaos, losses, and death, and drives the story to its stunning, tragic conclusion. The energy of melodrama surges through this big novel, yet as a portrait of a culture and a knowing psychological tale of the social and personal consequences of rigidly enforced class differences, it's a work of high literary distinction as well. A much-beloved work in Korea (where it was made into an equally popular television series) that should find many grateful admirers in America as well. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
When I visited my mother in Korea this year, in October,2018, I found there were 20 complete volumes, Land, at nearby library of my mother's house. I was very excited when I borrowed books with my nephew's library card. I was very tired after taking care of my mother who has a severe dementia, but I kept reading instead of resting while she was sleeping.
The volume 1 starts with novelist, Jisoo Choi's family, living in countryside in the early 20th century just before Korea was ruled by Japan. Japan is preparing colonization of Korea; Japanese grants land to Japanese settlers.
For those who want to know about the books 'Land' more, I copied the book introduction at Amazon.com. and I attached below since I cannot write better than that, and I found nobody wrote a book review of 'Land.'
.... it possesses both the formal dimensions and the high seriousness of epic, is set in a period during which Japan held strong sway over Korea, regulating its business and industry and making arbitrary land grants to Japanese settlers. At the heart of the novel is a series of conflicts between Korean conservatives too enervated to oppose Japan's acquisitive energies and radical native insurgents. Their resistance culminated in the Dong Hak rebellion, a watershed historical event that casts long shadows over the intricately interwoven fates of Kyong-ni's vividly drawn characters--most especially Choi Chisoo, an arrogant, wealthy landowner, hated and envied by his neighbors and servants, and at continual odds with his embittered wife, whose ``failure'' to bear him a son provokes Choi's bitter displeasure and sets in motion a chain of events leading to his downfall. The author employs a kind of Upstairs, Downstairs structure, in which nondescript villagers and assorted second-class citizens observe, comment on, and in some ways parallel the lives of their ``betters.'' Among the most memorable are Pyongsan, an impoverished landowner waiting patiently through half a lifetime to be revenged on the avaricious Choi; the handsome villager Yongi; and the scheming Guinyo, the ambitious housemaid whose plan to rise above her station precipitates chaos, losses, and death, and drives the story to its stunning, tragic conclusion. The energy of melodrama surges through this big novel, yet as a portrait of a culture and a knowing psychological tale of the social and personal consequences of rigidly enforced class differences, it's a work of high literary distinction as well. A much-beloved work in Korea (where it was made into an equally popular television series) that should find many grateful admirers in America as well. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
January 24, 2022
20권으로 가는 길이 험난할 것으로 생각되었으나
생각보다 흥미진진한 빠른 전개에 단숨에 읽어내렸다
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