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Sad Contradiction

Yang Geon-sik

出版	Literature Translation Institute of Korea, 2014-11-30
主題	Literary Collections / GeneralLiterary Collections / Asian / General
ISBN	89933604569788993360455
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=6lUpBgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

Yang Geon-sik’s first-person short story “Sad Contradiction,” published in 1918, tells the story of an unnamed protagonist who represents the frustrated Korean intellectuals of the times. At odds with himself and others, he sets off wandering through the streets of Seoul, at times on foot, at times by tram, at times in rickshaw, but ever aimlessly. He remarks on shameless women, drunken day laborers, brutal police, and equally aimless friends. Very little actually happens in this story, which is part of the writer’s point, for very little happened in the lives of such superfluous intellectuals as here depicted. Except that they do sometimes reach a dead end in a society that sees no need for intellectuals. And something does finally happen at the dead end of this story.