Check out these latest books from our Department’s Bruce Fulton and his wife Ju-Chan Fulton! The Fultons are the translators of numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction, including the award-winning women’s anthology, Words of Farewell: Stories by Korean Women Writers (Seal Press, 1989), and with Marshall R. Pihl, Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction, rev. and exp. ed. (M.E. Sharpe, 2007).
The Future of Silence: Fiction by Korean Women
Published by Zephyr Press, the book contains five stories from Fulton’s 1997 anthology WAYFARER, which is out of print, and five stories from the new millennium.In the earliest of the stories, Pak Wan-so, considered the elder stateswoman of contemporary Korean fiction, opens the door into two “Identical Apartments” where sisters-in-law, bound as much by competition as love, struggle to live with their noisy, extended families. O Chong-hui, who has been compared to Joyce Carol Oates and Alice Munro, examines a day in the life of a woman after she is released from a mental institution, while younger writers, such as Kim Sagwa, Han Yujoo and Ch’on Un-yong explore violence, biracial childhood, and literary experimentation.
The Moving Castle
Hwang Sunwŏn’s The Moving Fortress (1972) is a panorama of Korea and Koreans coming to terms with the confrontation of tradition with modernity. By turns hard-boiled and lyrical, rooted in the workaday lives of slum-dwellers as well as the bizarre dreams of the affluent, alive with vibrant images of the metropolis of Seoul as well as the immemorial countryside, the novel epitomizes the rich variety of Hwang Sun-w?n’s art. The Fulton’s translation of this novel, titled THE MOVING CASTLE, was originally published in Seoul in 1985 but was never marketed overseas. For the new release they did a new translation and re-titled it.
Bruce Fulton's Recently Published Books
March 31, 2016
