Sweet potato

...With his unique writing style that goes one step further than the unification of spoken and written language, his concise narration and simple structure, and the unique characterization of his characters, he is considered the founder of the modern short story in Korea. His representative work is "Sweet Potato" (1925), which depicts a heroine who becomes addicted to sex and money and ends up morally ruined and dying. He often liked such shocking themes, and "Mad Flame Sonata," "Mad Painter," and "Daesuyang" are challenging works that are against good sense and common sense, but they lack ideological depth and "The Story of Kim Sil" falls into the trap of exposing the truth. ...

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…言文一致を一歩進めた個性的な文章，簡潔な叙述と単一な構成，作中人物の個性的な性格創造により，朝鮮における近代的短編小説の確立者とされる。性と金銭に溺れ道徳的に破滅して死にいたるヒロインを描く《甘藷》(1925)はその代表作。彼はしばしばこうした衝撃的題材を好み，《狂炎ソナタ》《狂画師》《大首陽》なども反良識，反常識の挑戦的作品だが，思想的奥行に欠け《金実伝》では暴露趣味に堕している。…

※「《甘藷》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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