Kim Seung-ok

Kim Seung-ok
Korean spelling
Hangeul	김승옥
Hanja	金 承 鈺
Revised Romanization	Gim Seung-ok
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Sŭngok
See also : Korean name

Kim Seung-ok , also Kim Sŭng-Ok (born December 23, 1941 in Osaka , Japan ) is a South Korean writer .

Life

Kim Seung-ok was born on December 23, 1941 in Osaka, Japan . In 1945 he moved to Korea . He grew up in Sunch'ŏn , a city in southern Korea, and completed his studies in French literature at Seoul National University . Since he began studying in 1960, the year the April Revolution broke out, he is often assigned to the “April 19th Generation”.

In 1962 he won the annual literary competition of the Hankook Ilbo ( Korea newspaper ) with his story Practice Life . This made him known in the literary scene. In the same year he founded the literary magazine '' Sanmun sidae ( prose time ) with his fellow students Kim Hyŏn and Ch'oe Ha-rim , in which he a. a. published his fantasy notebook .

Since then he has been active as a writer. Mujin im Nebel (1964) made him the most important representative of the new literary trend . The unusual atmosphere and the special style in his texts, in which he thematizes human existence with all its disillusions , were considered representative of the self-contempt of the students at that time.

In 1965 he was awarded the Tong-in Literature Prize for his story Seoul, Winter 1964 . According to the critics, in this story the author completed his unique literary world, in which he describes the everyday life of the city and the inner world of its self-despising petty bourgeoisie in his typically dry style. In 1977 he was the first recipient of the Yi Sang Literature Prize , which he was awarded for his story Moonlight over Seoul: Kapitel Null . This enabled Kim Seung-ok to consolidate his position as an experienced writer. With the stories The Manner of the 60s and Fertility , which show a certain erotic tendency, he tried to overcome the disillusionment of modern man. But even this attempt failed to destroy his own unusually persistent disillusion. He turned to Christianity and stopped writing stories. For thirty years he has published essays on his religious experiences and lives as a devout Christian. Since 1999 he has been teaching Korean literature at Sejong University .

In 2004 Munhakdongnae published the entire story of Kim Seung-oks.

Work

Volumes of stories

• 60 년대 식 ( The Style of the 60s ) (Sŏŭm, 1966)
• 서울 1964 년 겨울 ( Seoul, winter 1964 ) (Changmunsa, 1966)
• 김승옥 소설집 ( Kim Seung-ok. Stories ) (Saemt'ŏsa, 1975)
• 무진 기행 ( Mujin in the mist ) (Pŏmusa, 1977)
• 환상 수첩 ( Fantasy Notebook ) (Koryŏwon, 1987)
• 내가 훔친 여름 ( The Summer I Stole ) (Hanjin, 1980)
• 염소 는 힘 이 세다 ( Strong is the billy goat ) (Minŭmsa, 1980)
• 다 산성 ( High productivity ) (Hankyoreh, 1987)

Novels

• 강변 부인 ( The Woman by the River ) (Hanjin, 1977)
• 위험한 얼굴 ( Dangerous Face ) (Chisik sanŏpsa, 1977)

Complete works

• 김승옥 소설 전집 ( Kim Seung-ok. Complete works ) (Munhakdongne, 2004)

Translations

German

• Seoul, winter 1964 . In: Korean Literature - Selected Stories, Volume III Present. (Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, 1986) ISBN 3-416-01964-4 .
• Mujin in the mist. Edition Peperkorn, Thunum / Ostfriesland 2009, ISBN 978-3-929181-81-4 .

French

• A la Façon des années soixante (Ares: Actes Sud, 1995)
• La Surproductivité (Arles: Actes Sud, 1992)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LTI Korea: 문인 DB: Kim Seung-ok ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 2, 2013 (Korean). 
2. ↑ LTI Korea: Author Database: Kim Seung-ok ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 2, 2013. 
3. ↑ 한국 현대문 학대 사전 LTI Korea: 김승옥 , accessed August 8, 2013 (Korean).

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Seung-ok is the first name.