- Overview
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- Book Intro
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(English) Walk Into the Story
An essay collection that has shed new light on the past and present of Busan by borrowing a novel with the backdrop of Busan. An essay addressing a work that takes a “region” apart from Seoul as its background, the book speaks on literature by adopting a special format and attempts a new method of approach to the novel.
The author’s steps that started from Gupo pass Jungang-dong and Wandol-dong and stops at Eulsukdo Island and Namhae. The author Kap Sang Cho revisits the places where characters in the novel stayed and strolled, taking photos and recording the scenery.
The space in the novel is a reproduction of space in reality, so identifying the yesterday and today of a region through a work is never an unrealistic story. The author emphasizes repeatedly that an on-site survey of a literary space significantly assists the understanding of a work as well as exploring the region.
- About the Author
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Jo Gapsang
(English) Born in Uiryeong, South Gyeongsang Province. He graduated in creative writing from Chung-Ang University and Dong-A University’s Graduate School. He began his career in literature after the short story 「Smiling Alone」 was elected to Dong-A Ilbo’s New Spring Literature in 1980. He published novel collections 『Restart of End』, 『Lost My Brother on the Road』, 『The Moon of Tehachapi』, a novel 『Everyone Dreams Love Beyond the Parallel Line』, and propose collection 『Walking on a Story』. He won the Yosan Literature Award and the Lee Ju-Hong Literature Award. He is currently teaching novels at the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Kyungsung University.
(Japanese) 慶尚南道宜寧出身。中央大文芸創作学科と東亜大大学院を卒業した。1980年東亜日報新春文藝に短編小説『一人笑い』が選定され、作品活動を始めた。小説集『また始まる終わり』、『道で兄を失う』、『テハチャピの月』、長編小説『誰もが平行線の向こうの愛を夢見る』を出し、散文集に『話を歩く』がある。
(French) Né à Uiryeong, Gyeongnam. Il est diplômé du département d'écriture créative de l'université de Chung-Ang et de l'école supérieure de l'université de Dong-A. En 1980, sa nouvelle, Rire seul a été sélectionnée pour le prix des arts littéraires du Nouvel An de Dong-A Ilbo, et il a fait ses débuts. Il a publié des recueils de romans La fin pour recommencer, Perte du frère aîné dans la rue, La lune de Tehachapi, son roman Tout le monde rêve l’amour au-delà des parallèles et son essai Marche sur l’histoire. Il a reçu le prix littéraire Yosan et le prix littéraire Lee Joo Hong.
