Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories
Myŏngik Ch’oe
Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories
Myŏngik Ch’oe
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Korean writer Ch’oe Myŏngik was a lifelong resident of Pyongyang, a city his short stories masterfully evoke in exquisite modernist prose. This book presents a selection of Ch’oe’s short fiction in translation.
This collection’s publication is a major event . . . While any historian interested in a glimpse of Korean life would benefit from reading these stories, treating them as mere documentation undervalues Ch’oe’s literary talents. His spare, lean style and ability to capture deep pathos are as evocative as Hemingway and feel strikingly contemporary.
Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories showcases Ch’oe Myŏngik’s creative mastery, from avant-garde to socialist realism. Read "Young Kwŏn Tongsu" and feel the everyday tension of a country at war. Janet Poole’s craft is at its height here, her delivery vivid, her introduction an exquisite reflection on Korea’s literary landscape chiseled by the cruel primacy of Cold War politics. This is the most important translation in recent years.
Translating the "technologies of cinema and photography" into literary form, Ch’oe Myŏngik infuses his stories with detailed observations of colonial Pyongyang and the fledgling North Korea state. This collection, judiciously selected and translated by Janet Poole, is a brilliant introduction to his experimental works.
Patterns of the Heart . . . will reward readers with even the faintest interest in Korean literature or history.
Poole has done commendable work in translating these stories.
The stories provide a fascinating look inside the North Korea from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Ch’oe Myŏngik was born in Pyongyang in 1903 and resided in the city all his life. The son of a merchant, he ran a small factory while pursuing fiction writing as a sideline in the 1930s. His writing was acclaimed for its modernism and explorations of a city and its inhabitants in flux. His date of passing is unknown.
Janet Poole is chair and associate professor of East Asian studies and distinguished professor of the humanities at the University of Toronto. She is the translator of Yi T’aejun’s Eastern Sentiments (Columbia, 2009) and Dust and Other Stories (Columbia, 2018).
This collection’s publication is a major event . . . While any historian interested in a glimpse of Korean life would benefit from reading these stories, treating them as mere documentation undervalues Ch’oe’s literary talents. His spare, lean style and ability to capture deep pathos are as evocative as Hemingway and feel strikingly contemporary.
Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories showcases Ch’oe Myŏngik’s creative mastery, from avant-garde to socialist realism. Read "Young Kwŏn Tongsu" and feel the everyday tension of a country at war. Janet Poole’s craft is at its height here, her delivery vivid, her introduction an exquisite reflection on Korea’s literary landscape chiseled by the cruel primacy of Cold War politics. This is the most important translation in recent years.
Translating the "technologies of cinema and photography" into literary form, Ch’oe Myŏngik infuses his stories with detailed observations of colonial Pyongyang and the fledgling North Korea state. This collection, judiciously selected and translated by Janet Poole, is a brilliant introduction to his experimental works.
Patterns of the Heart . . . will reward readers with even the faintest interest in Korean literature or history.
Poole has done commendable work in translating these stories.
The stories provide a fascinating look inside the North Korea from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Ch’oe Myŏngik was born in Pyongyang in 1903 and resided in the city all his life. The son of a merchant, he ran a small factory while pursuing fiction writing as a sideline in the 1930s. His writing was acclaimed for its modernism and explorations of a city and its inhabitants in flux. His date of passing is unknown.
Janet Poole is chair and associate professor of East Asian studies and distinguished professor of the humanities at the University of Toronto. She is the translator of Yi T’aejun’s Eastern Sentiments (Columbia, 2009) and Dust and Other Stories (Columbia, 2018).