The Sound of the Rapids
Author: Seok-Young Hwang
Publisher: Jaumgwa Moum
H/C | 496 pages | 188*128mm
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About This Book
A long novel by Hwang Suk Young. It is a piece that writes about the
turbulent generation of the 19th century, and the thematic consciousness
and material are so vast that they can be written in a saga.
The story of the novel starts with the reminiscence of the artist ¡®Park
Yeon Ok¡¯. She is an illegitimate daughter of a nobleman from the country
and a concubine wife. Yeon Ok has Korea¡¯s traditional womanly
characteristics because she longs for and endures the feelings she has
for Lee Shin Tong for a lifetime and does not resent him. However, she
shows her strength when she goes out into the road to find him after he
disappears.
The Lee Shin Tong that Yeon Ok looks for is the son of a concubine, who
is also the daughter of concubine. He is a failed scholar who wanders
the surroundings and becomes an electrician, storyteller, joker,
entertainer financer, theater playwright, and later on an astronomer. He
involves himself in the revolution and ends up recording the thoughts
and whereabouts of his teacher. Through his whereabouts, the turbulent
19th century¡¯s Confucian thinking that was maintained through strict
position maintenance was overturned, and the generation¡¯s flow that
cannot be turned back was sketched through the paper that surprisingly
declared ¡®Humans are the sky¡¯ (the novel a calls it ¡®Map of the Sky¡¯) to
melt the pain and injury filled modern times in a large epic novel.
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