Hyun Kil-un
Hyun Kil -un (* 1940) is a South Korean writer.
Life
Hyun Kil -un was born on February 17, 1940 on the island of Jeju. He studied Korean language and literature at the Jeju University and continued his studies in Seoul in this area at the Sungkyunkwan University and Hanyang University continued. Until 2005, he taught as a professor of Korean Language and Literature at Hanyang University.
Hyun Kil -un began his literary career in 1980 with the release of The sound of the collapsing Castle ( 성 무너 지는 소리 ) in the monthly magazine of the publishing Hyeondae Munhak ( contemporary literature ). The birthplace of the author Jeju -do, whose history and customs are an inspiration for his fictional narratives. The stories in his first collection of short stories The Dream of Pegasus ( 용마 의 꿈 ) deal with the traumatic historical event, known as the Jeju Uprising or even Jeju massacre. Hyun Kil -un examines the events again and tried thus to express and process grief over the death of innocent people. Another issue is the ideological and historical distortion of truth. In skin and flesh ( 껍질 과 속살 1993) the metaphor of surface and depth is used to represent the relationship between official and often ideologically manipulated "truth" and the underlying buried human truth. Even in the stories fever ( 신열 ) and a strange band ( 이상한 끈 ) he tackles this problem. In addition to short stories and novels Hyun Kil -un has also written books on scientific literature and their creation (eg: 소설 쓰기 의 이론 과 실제 theory and practice of novel writing, 1997).
Working
Korean
Short story collections
- 용마 의 꿈 The Dream of Pegasus (1984 )
- 신열 Fever (1984 )
- 우리들 의 스승님 Teachers (1985 ) ISBN 2002194005166
- 우리 시대 의 열전 biographies of our time (1988 ) ISBN 2002191000621
- 무지개 는 일곱 색 이어서 아름답다 A rainbow is beautiful because it has seven colors ( 1989) ISBN 0000238236
- 우리들 의 조부님 Our grandfathers (1990 ) ISBN 2000370010768
- 배반 의 끝 At the end of Betrayal (1993 ) ISBN 8932006474
Novels
- 여자 의 강 Woman's River (1992 )
- 회색 도시 Grey City (1993 ) ISBN 8912061968
- 한라산 Hallasan (1995 ) several volumes
- 잊지 못할 일들 은 너무 빨리 잊어 버린다 Unforgettable forget things too fast ( 1999) ISBN 8941801877
- 숲 의 왕국 The Kingdom of the Forest (2012 ) ISBN 9788988653531
- 낯선 숲 으로 난 길 A way to a unknown forest (2012 ) ISBN 9788954428217
Translations
German
- Short stories by Hyun Kil -Un In: Turning Point The Swiss literary magazine No. 106: In the land of the morning calm. Poems and prose from South Korea, Lenos (2000)
- Nail traces Edition Peper grain, Thunum (2006)
English
- Dead Silence and Other Stories of the Jeju massacre, East Bridge ( 2007)
- LA VILLE GRISE, Editions Imago (2013 )