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Le phare
"Sur le squelette de mes souvenirs d'adolescent, j'ai drapé quelques haillons romanesques", écrit Lim Chul-woo (né en 1954) en épilogue du Phare, suite de son bestseller, Je veux aller dans cette île (L'Asiathèque), récit de son enfance sur l'île de Wando. Comme une parenthèse dans l'oeuvre politique de cet auteur engagé, le journal de bord de son jeune héros, débarqué avec mère et soeurs dans un "hameau de foutraques" de la banlieue de Kwangu, entraîne le lecteur au coeur de la Corée des petites gens. De saynète en saynète, Cheol, 12 ans, gamin turbulent au grand coeur et à la haine tenace (envers le père volatilisé), brosse avec une grande fraîcheur le portrait de ses voisins de peine. Un bel hommage à toutes les mères courage des années 1960.
300 pages, Paperback
Published March 16, 2016
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Lim Chulwoo
11 books7 followersLim Chul-Woo (Hangul: 임철우) is a South Korean writer born in 1954, known for his subversive works.
Im Chul-woo was born October 15, 1954, on Wando Island in Jeollanam-do. He moved to Gwangju at age 10 and attended Sung-il High School there. He graduated from Jeonnam University with a degree in English Literature and completed graduate programs in English Literature at both Sogang University and Jeonnam University. Presently, he teaches Creative Writing at Hanshin University. Im was in Gwangju during the Gwangju Uprising and this critically influenced his outlook. His work has centered around dramatizations of that event and works which more generally focus on issues of Korean separation.
His debut was The Dog Thief in 1981[.] In 1985 he was awarded the 17th Korean Creative Writing Prize for The Land of My Father (Abeoji ui ttang) and in 1988 was awarded the 12th Yi Sang Literature Prize for The Red Room (Bulgeun bang), which has since been published in an anthology of the same name.
In 1994 Im’s novel, I Want to Go to the Island was made into a Korean movie, To the Starry Island.
(from Wikipedia)
Im Chul-woo was born October 15, 1954, on Wando Island in Jeollanam-do. He moved to Gwangju at age 10 and attended Sung-il High School there. He graduated from Jeonnam University with a degree in English Literature and completed graduate programs in English Literature at both Sogang University and Jeonnam University. Presently, he teaches Creative Writing at Hanshin University. Im was in Gwangju during the Gwangju Uprising and this critically influenced his outlook. His work has centered around dramatizations of that event and works which more generally focus on issues of Korean separation.
His debut was The Dog Thief in 1981[.] In 1985 he was awarded the 17th Korean Creative Writing Prize for The Land of My Father (Abeoji ui ttang) and in 1988 was awarded the 12th Yi Sang Literature Prize for The Red Room (Bulgeun bang), which has since been published in an anthology of the same name.
In 1994 Im’s novel, I Want to Go to the Island was made into a Korean movie, To the Starry Island.
(from Wikipedia)
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March 28, 2024
- XXè siècle
- Corée du Sud
- l'enfance, la misère, l'absence
Personnages : Cheol, sa mère qui se tue à la tâche, ses sœurs Bun et Mae (handicapée), un père qui les a abandonnés
"Vivre, c'est marcher seul dans une nuit d'encre. Dans l'obscurité, ni la destination, ni le chemin emprunté ne sont visibles. [...] N'oublie surtout pas ! Les rêveurs trouvent leur chemin dans l'obscurité. À toi de découvrir ton rêve." (père de Cheol au crépuscule de sa vie)
- Corée du Sud
- l'enfance, la misère, l'absence
Personnages : Cheol, sa mère qui se tue à la tâche, ses sœurs Bun et Mae (handicapée), un père qui les a abandonnés
"Vivre, c'est marcher seul dans une nuit d'encre. Dans l'obscurité, ni la destination, ni le chemin emprunté ne sont visibles. [...] N'oublie surtout pas ! Les rêveurs trouvent leur chemin dans l'obscurité. À toi de découvrir ton rêve." (père de Cheol au crépuscule de sa vie)
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