"Who lit an inextinguishable lamp on that high place?"
- "There is a lot of dung in Luchuan"
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๐ Title: "There is a lot of dung in Luchuan"
๐ Author: [Han] Lee Cang-dong
๐ Douban: 8.9
๐ My: 9.4
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โญ๏ธ Synopsis:
This book is a collection of short stories published in 1992 by South Korean director Lee Chang-dong, for which he won the Korea Ilbo Creative Literature Award, and the following year he was invited by director Park Kwang-so to enter the film industry, and then he transformed into an internationally influential film master.
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This collection of novels presents a group of low-level characters who are caught up in the complex and ever-changing tide of history, who struggle to find true value in life, struggle with the pain of reality, and at the same time find meaning in their personal lives.
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The author examines the reality of Korea through the experiences of these characters, but rather than stopping at telling historical events or the story itself, but focuses on the transformation of the characters along the way, and they gradually begin to question and explore the true value of life and their own identity.
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โญ๏ธ Waist seal:
The East Asian narrative is a grand collective memory
Li Cangdong's pen work
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Confront the intricacies of life itself and explore the possibilities of true value
From "Burning Paper" to "Burning", eternal scrutiny and questioning
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At that time, as if I was writing a love letter to someone, I restrained my earnest heart and wrote these works verbatim. - Li Cangdong
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โญ๏ธ Some sentences:
"On this huge pile of garbage, all the swelling, all the hatred, and those dreams that have been abandoned, all the swelling under my feet, walked to my comfort nest of twenty-three pings that crumbled in the middle of the air. โ
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Like his mother, for Joon-sik, the so-called life, gorgeous, magnificent, noble, always out of reach, mean, dirty, tired but always constant. โ
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"Although he was slumped on the dung, the stars in the night sky still twinkled beautifully"
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โญ๏ธ "Who lit an inextinguishable lamp on that high place?"
โญ๏ธ "When I encountered such a terrible period in the police station, when I was with Jin Guangpei, and for a moment, the earth was moving along its own orbit unchanged, and the star in the universe was lonely guarding its place, shining. โ
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"The hoarse whistle of a train could be heard in the darkness. It was the Unification train that left for Seoul at 3:50 a.m., and Shin-hye felt that if she picked up the pace, she would be able to catch up. She ran to the station as she had done the first time she had arrived, carrying only a plastic bag in her hand. โthe end of the story
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