Recently, the famous Korean director Lee Cangdong's masterpiece "Burning Paper" was introduced and published by the Deer Book Studio of Wuhan University Press, including Li Cangdong's debut novel "Booty" and other short stories in a total of eleven articles.
Li Cangdong
Lee wrote novels in his early years and won the Korea Daily's Creative Literature Award. In 1997, he began to make films, and his representative works include "Mints", "Oasis", "Miyang", "Poetry", "Burning" and so on. In 2002, he won the Best Director Award and the International Film Critic Award at the Venice International Film Festival for "Mints", the Best Director Award at the 59th Venice Film Festival in 2005 for Oasis, the Best Director at the 2nd Asian Film Awards in 2007 for "Miyang", the Best Screenwriter at the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival, the Best Director at the 5th Asian Film Awards and the Best Director at the 4th Asia Pacific Film Awards in 2010 for "Poetry", and the new film "Burning" in 2018. Winner of the International Film Critics Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Poster for the movie Burning
Whether it is a film narrative or a novel narrative, Li Cangdong holds an extremely sharp scalpel in his hand, and he deeply cuts through the survival dilemma of ordinary people in modern Korean society, uprooting the historical trauma he has endured, the cruelty of human nature, and the infringement of individual fate. In his eyes, whether it is film or literature, the purpose should be to reflect the truth, and it is necessary to find the truth hidden by life.
"Burning Paper" contains eleven of Li Cangdong's debut novels, "Booty" and other short stories. These works focus on people and small people on the fringes of the city, focusing on two types of themes, one is the pain caused by social realities such as the Korean War and the North-South split, the Gwangju Incident, and the other is the social problems in the process of the industrialization and development of Korean society. His novels do not take major events as clues, but often revolve around the details of life, such as the gap between two generations, the family conflicts between husband and wife or between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, the storms on the bus, etc. What is hidden under his clumsy brushstrokes is the great sense of tragedy behind these small events. His works have a sense of realistic realism, as his films profoundly portray the relationship between people, looking for the truth hidden by life.
In this collection of novels, he is not only a humanist film director, but also a compassionate writer. From Li Cangdong's words, it can be seen that the charm of his films stems from this kind of realistic writing that dares to calmly look directly at reality and coldly force the soul.
"All my hope is that there will be a little bit of change. It's like using a candle to pass on the torch, handing it over, lighting a candle in someone else's hand. Li Cangdong said.
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