[KS] Park Kyong-ni

[J H Grayson]

6.5.08

Dear Friends,
In addition to the German translation of Toji, there is also a partial English
translation by Agnita Tennant published in 1996.

James H. Grayson
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Quoting Brother Anthony <ansonjae at sogang.ac.kr>:

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> I do not think that anyone has recorded the death, last Monday May 5, of the
> novelist Park Kyong-ni, author of the immense 'Toji' (Land) novel (16
> volumes) and many other works. It was always a source of bewilderment to
> Koreans that translators did not share their enthusiasm for her, when
> she seemed to so many Korean readers to embody and give voice to the
> essential Korean woman's experience. They could not see the immense
> difficulties translators and non-Korean readers faced on account of the
> constant flow of untranslateable references to traditional Korean culture and
> Korean history, to say nothing of the immense size of 'Toji'. In German,
> seven volumes by her were translated, thanks mainly to the devotion of one
> translator. In general, women writers born a decade or two later than
> her have fared better in translation (Park Wan-so or O Jong-hui) but she was
> for ordinary Koreans a remarkable figure whom they venerated deeply.
> See for example 
> http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2008/05/244_23642.html
>  for more details. The funeral will be on May 9.
> Brother Anthony
> Sogang University, Seoul
> http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/
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