The Cloud Dream of the Nine
Author: Man-Choong Kim
Translator: Seong-uk Song
Publisher: Minumsa
254 pages | 225*132mm
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| >>>This book is written in Korean. |
About This Book
The reader must lay aside all Western notions of morality if he would
thoroughly enjoy this book. The scene of the amazing "Cloud Dream of the
Nine," the most moving romance of polygamy ever written, is laid about
849 A.D. in the period of the great Chinese dynasty of the Tangs. By its
simple directness this hitherto unknown Korean classic makes an
ineffaceable impression.
But the story of the devotion of Master Yang to eight women and of their
devotion to him and to each other is more than a naive tale of the
relations of men and women under a social code so far removed from our
own as to be almost incredible. It is a record of emotions, aspirations
and ideas which enables us to look into the innermost chambers of the
Chinese soul. "The Cloud Dream of the Nine" is a revelation of what the
Oriental thinks and feels not only about things of the earth but about
the hidden things of the Universe. It helps us towards a comprehensible
knowledge of the Far East.
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