土地（第1部）（第1卷）

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by [韩]朴景利 刘广铭，金英今

《土地(第1部)(第1卷)》故事发展横跨1897年东学革命失败至1905年签订乙巳条约之间10余年的动荡时期，以庆尚南道河东郡平沙里村为故事背景，以名门世家“崔参判一家”的种种遭遇为主线，围绕崔致修被害、崔参判家族的精神支柱――尹氏老夫人的病逝、赵俊九等人为篡取崔氏家族的财产而进行的一系列阴谋诡计等等，另有崔氏家族里的成员、仆人、村民以及其他两班家族等数量众多的人物纷纷登场，各显风采，故事情节紧张刺激、人物刻画生动细致。第一部以崔氏家族的末代子孙西姬离乡背井前往间岛收尾，整部小说每一个人物和每一件事件都在偶然与必然之间环环相扣、起伏跌宕，实乃大河长篇小说《土地》完美文学成就之例证。韩国现代文学的扛鼎之作抢滩登陆历时26载完成的史诗巨著重现经典韩国现代文坛泰斗朴景利以细腻、鹹的女陸视角溫情关注历史狂涛之下芸芸众生的坚韧、尊严、反省、宽容、救赎以及人性。韩国三大网络书店五颗星推荐韩国出版物委员会鼎力推荐第一篇黑暗的脚步声第一章西姬老金头儿在嚷嚷着。“年年找麻烦的，还都就是固定的那帮子人！”“哪有谁愿意找麻烦啊。”“得了吧！牛死了，腿断了活儿没干成，为了婚事借了对半利，到最后你想找什么借口啊？”但是，对方没把老金头儿放在眼里。“要是我在找借口，天打五雷轰。你可最好不要说那种冤枉人的话。”不满地顶了句嘴。“这样下去谁能受得了，受不了了。像是夹在中间的树一样，这哪是人干的活儿啊。”整天面对着这样那样百般恳求的佃农们，柔顺的老金头儿看来也烦了。几天前开始，崔参判家里里外嘈杂了起来。成排的库房里源源不断地搬进了稻草包，同时还要往邑里运粮食，不仅下人们累，就连马厩里健壮的马和牛圈里肥胖的牛也几乎是筋疲力尽。门房也一样熙熙攘攘，挤满了从远近各地聚集来的二地主和佃户们，大锅要为他们不停地煮出饭来。第一篇黑暗的脚步声序第一章西姬第二章跟踪第三章山谷中的灯笼第四章谜团第五章集日第六章村姑们第七章常民尹普和中人文大夫第八章五行戏第九章音信第十章在酒馆儿遇见的姜猎户第十一章开明两班第十二章梦中的须弥山第十三章巫女第十四章恶棍与魔女第十五章第一次争论第十六章口传第十七章袭击第十八章诱惑第十九章使者第二篇追踪与阴谋第一章消失的女人第二章尹氏老夫人的秘密第三章失败第四章天空和树林第五章初恋第六章阴阳之道第七章暗示第八章行凶第九章记忆中的风景第十章遥远的黄泉路第十一章黄金的彩虹第十二章子授堂中的情事第十三章梦《土地》第一部主要人物简介《土地》第一部主要人物谱系崔参判府邸结构作家年谱我们这样的小国，只有在文学领域才能出现如此宏伟的河流（指《土地》），这是上天的祝福，是奇迹。——韩国著名当代女作家朴婉绪《土地》是以小说的形式写就的韩国近代史，是最优秀的文学作品。称它为“最”，并不仅仅是因为它庞大的篇幅、历史时空和由它兴起的大河小说创作潮流。——韩国著名当代文学评论家金炳翼当我们挣扎于矛盾世界的时候，朴景利就是那个保护我们悲伤的灵魂，并将它深藏于土壤中的人。比起几百个庞大的重化学工厂，我更看重《土地》的价值。是无法用金钱来衡量的艺术作品，《土地》留给我们是我们精神层面上的GNP

Genres: Fiction

Paperback

Published December 1, 2008

Reviews

[Jungsook Chung · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Chaery Imm · Rating 5 out of 5]

20권으로 가는 길이 험난할 것으로 생각되었으나
생각보다 흥미진진한 빠른 전개에 단숨에 읽어내렸다