The Wounded Season

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Fiction from Korea by Kong Sonok, Ch'oe Inhun, Im Cholu, and Yi Ch'ongjun — writers whose work carries the scars of division, war, and the rapid modernization that followed. The stories are accompanied by the first installment of a symposium on translating Asian poetry, adding a second layer of reflection on what survives the journey between languages. A collection that captures Korean fiction in a wounded season — a period when the country's writers were processing trauma that was still ongoing and finding forms adequate to express it. Stories from a literature that was writing its way through catastrophe in real time.