Literature as Encounter and Discovery, as exemplified by Hahn Moo-Sook’

Literature as Encounter and Discovery, as exemplified by Hahn Moo-Sooks novel Encounter The Italian explorer Columbus (1451-1506) observed the American Continent in 1492. Of course, the unidentified continent had existed even in the first place he discovered it. But through Columbus discovery the unknown entity has emerged above the surface of the historical pisss as a unexampled World. Literature is like a voyage in search of a new continent, and the author is like Columbus. In the course of our lives, undiscovered reconcile matters abound like countless islands in the gigantic ocean of awareness. If perchance such a continent is not discovered through the look of a source, it would sink to eternal oblivion. An author, therefore, is like an explorer who, through an dateless literary voyage, discovers and reveals a fascinating New World. Accordingly, an author may be called a christener of a particular subject matter merely as Columbus who, upon discovery of an unknown continent, finally helped it exist by duty assignment it America. Just as a conductors baton directs a violinist in an orchestra or a drummers dance, when a writer names something, he or she confers upon it both its existence and meaning. In undefiled Korean literature, two great literary pieces, The Tale of Chunhyang and The Tale of Shimchong, comprise two prototypes to which modern Korean literature can be related. In the classical tale of Chunhyang, the important motif is none other than encounter. eff sprouts from an encounter at the Kwanghan Pavilion in Namwon in the Southwestern commonwealth of Cholla, between Yi Mong-nyong, son of the county magistrate, and Chunhyang, daughter of a retired kisaeng (a woman entertainer, similar to Nipponese geisha). For them, their class... ... Just as the moon is somewhere in the sky, even if it is sink into the eastern mountain, my faith is constant in my heart. Just as the water is still in the pond, even if it i s evaporated from the surface, my faith is constant.Saint Francis said the undermentioned Flower petals fall, but the flowers never wither forever. Indeed, the author Hahn Moo-Sook has died and left us. However, just as the moon is still in the sky and the flowers come tail end every year, although flowers fall, she is still meeting us and she is living next to us through her work Encounter. The greatness of literature is none other than that. 1Encounter A Novel of Nineteenth-Century Korea by Moo-Sook Hahn, Translated by Ok Young Kim Chang. Foreword by Don Baker. University of California Press, 1992. ISBN(s) Cloth-- 0520073800 Paper-- 0520073819