To-hyang

To-hyang
Hangeul	나도향
Hanja	羅 稻香
Revised Romanization	Well, do-hyang
McCune- Reischauer	To-hyang
See also : Korean name

Na To-hyang (born March 30, 1902 in Seoul , † August 26, 1927 ) was a Korean writer .

Life

Na To-hyang was born on March 30, 1902 in Seoul under the name Na Kyŏng-son ( 나경 손 羅 慶 孫 ). His stage name is Na Pin ( 나빈 羅 彬 ). His pseudonym is Na To-yang. He was the oldest of thirteen children. At the request of his father, a doctor, he attended the medical college in Gyŏngsng (Seoul), but was expelled from the college. He wanted to study at Waseda University in Japan , but had to return to Korea due to financial problems, where he worked as a teacher at an elementary school in Andong and started writing at the same time. He made his literary debut in 1921 when his short story Schulverweis ( 출학 ) was published in the school magazine. In 1922 he was involved in founding the literature and art magazine Weisse Woge ( 백조 ). He died on August 26, 1927 of pneumonia .

His early works tend towards romanticism, which is characteristic of authors who do not yet have a fully developed perspective. They are full of emotion, write overly emotional, and are often criticized for their abundance of attributes. From 1923, however, he began to move away from the romantic view of things and gained a more objective view of things. Samryong, the Mute , one of his most famous works, is about an ugly, mute servant who falls in love with his beautiful and kind mistress. The servant's unhappy love resembles the unattainable longing of people for ultimate beauty. While love remains a dominant theme in his later works, it is no longer a mere romantic vision, but rather a tool to examine the burgeoning brutality of people and sexual corruption, which Nas believes has its roots in unjust society. He never really reached full maturity as a writer due to his untimely death , but his works are and will remain an integral and influential part of Korean literature.

Work

Korean

• 젊은이 의 時節 Time of Youth (1921)
• 옛날 꿈 은 蒼白 하더이다 The Dreams of the Past Are Pale (1921)
• 幻 戱 The Vision (1922)
• 十七 圓 五十 錢 17 hwan and 50 coins (1923)
• 행랑 자식 The child from the servants ' quarters (1923)
• 자기 를 찾기 前 Before Finding Yourself (1924)
• 電車 車 掌 의 日記 몇 節 A few lines from the diary of the ticket inspector on the tram (1924)
• 뽕 Mulberries (1925)
• 물레 방아 The watermill (1925)
• 漢江 邊 의 一 葉片 舟 A tiny boat on the bank of the Hangang (1925)
• J 醫師 의 告白 The confession of Dr. J (1926)
• 꿈 The dream (1926)
• 池 亨 根 Ji Hyŏng-gŭn (1926)
• 벙어리 三 龍 Samryong the Mute (1926)

Web links

• Na To-hyang in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Other common transcriptions can be viewed under Korean Literature Authors Name Authority Database: 나도향 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 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 August 11, 2014 
2. ↑ 다음 백과 사전 : 나도향  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 11, 2014 (Korean)  
3. ↑ Na Do-hyang. ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2013 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. LTI Korea Author Database; accessed on August 13, 2014 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Well here is the family name, To-hyang is the first name.