[Feature] Forms of Corporeality and the Reality: Short Stories by Kim Um-ji & Choi Eun-young / Jung Ju-a
The Quarterly Changbi 174, Winter 2016
Abstract
Jung Ju-a examines the literary world of two novelists of the young generation, Kim Um-ji and Choi Eun-young, and minutely observes how they explore the reality, and what kind(s) of literary forms are invented in the process; while the former is said to inquire into "the stories of human-animal", the latter underscores the communal values. They cast a grave question about "what the literary reality should be like, which confronts 'the reality', indefinable, yet closing upon us like a sharp pain, though." It is noteworthy that the two novelists, in spite of their seeming differences, share, in some key points, "the form of totality" of their own invention.