[KS] Monthly magazine "Neva" - special Korean issue

[Vladimir Tikhonov]

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of my Russian colleague, Dr. Lee San Youn (St.Petersburg, 
Herzen Pedagogical University), I am glad to inform you that the special 
issue of an authoritative literary journal, <Neva> (issue 3, 2010) 
devoted almost exclusively to the modern and contemporary Korean 
literature, was just published. Its content, in its entirety, is 
available on the net (http://magazines.russ.ru/neva/2010/3/), so the 
Russian-speaking colleagues may click the link and enjoy reading Pak 
WansO's <KU salbOlhaettOn nal Ui Halmikkot>, or Sin KyOngsuk's <P'unggUm 
i ittOn chari> in Russian translation. The issue was generously 
sponsored by the Korean Literature Translation Institute, and much of 
the organizational work was shouldered by Dr. Lee San Youn, something 
all our Russian colleagues are deeply grateful to her for. I assume that 
all those interested in acquiring a copy, should contact Neva's 
editorial office through their homepage 
(http://www.nevajournal.spb.ru/). It is a journal which used to publish 
such Soviet literary stars as M.Sholokhov or V.Bykov, so a special issue 
almost wholly devoted to the Korean prose should be an important 
milestone on the way to Korean literature's "mainstreamization" in the 
Russophone literary space. 1990s-2000s saw publications of a number of 
important translations from modern and contemporary Korean literature 
into Russian (notably, Kim SowOl's poetry and Ch'oe Inhun's <Kwangjang> 
were published in Russian - and I judge the translations as very 
successful), but they seemed to generate comparatively little interest 
outside of the Korean Studies circles so far.

Vladimir Tikhonov/Pak Noja
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