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Interview with Haïlji

Interview with Haïlji Int e r v i e w w ith H aï l j i Minsoo Kang1 and Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton deal of resistance to the postmodern and experimental narratives associated in Korea with Western culture. This, despite the fact that many of the best and most celebrated postmodern works came out of areas other than Europe and North America: Latin America (Gabriel García Márquez), South Asia (Salman Rushdie), the Middle East (Orhan Parmuk), and Africa (Ben Okri). Yet your works have been consistently experimental and surrealistic, even when you deal directly with contemporary social issues, especially in your celebrated and controversial novel To the Racetrack (Kyngmajang kann kil). What is your general assessment of the state of contemporary Korean fiction and your place within it? Haïlji: I am a Korean writer but I have no special interest in contemporary Korean writing trends. I also do not spend much time thinking about my position in Korean literature as a whole. I am indifferent to such issues because, first of all, they are of no assistance in my own literary pursuits, and second, my focus is on world literature, and how I will be received by its readers. 1. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture University of Hawai'I Press

Interview with Haïlji

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Int e r v i e w w ith H aï l j i Minsoo Kang1 and Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton deal of resistance to the postmodern and experimental narratives associated in Korea with Western culture. This, despite the fact that many of the best and most celebrated postmodern works came out of areas other than Europe and North America: Latin America (Gabriel García Márquez), South Asia (Salman Rushdie), the Middle East (Orhan Parmuk), and Africa (Ben Okri). Yet your works have been consistently experimental and surrealistic, even when you deal directly with contemporary social issues, especially in your celebrated and controversial novel To the Racetrack (Kyngmajang kann kil). What is your general assessment of the state of contemporary Korean fiction and your place within it? Haïlji: I am a Korean writer but I have no special interest in contemporary Korean writing trends. I also do not spend much time thinking about my position in Korean literature as a whole. I am indifferent to such issues because, first of all, they are of no assistance in my own literary pursuits, and second, my focus is on world literature, and how I will be received by its readers. 1.

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Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: May 22, 2010

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