The soil
By: Yi Kwang-su ; translated by Hwang Sun-ae and Horace Jeffery Hodges
Contributors: Hwang, Sŏn-ae, translator; Hodges, Horace Jeffery, translator
Edition: First edition.
Series: Library of Korean literature -- 8; Library of Korean literature -- 8.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781564789112
Subjects: Community activists; Fiction; Rural conditions; Farmers
Work titles: Hŭk
Description: "A major, never before translated novel by the author of Mujông / The Heartless -- often called the first modern Korean novel -- The Soil tells the story of an idealist dedicating his life to helping the inhabitants of the rural community in which he was raised. Striving to influence the poor farmers of the time to improve their lots, become self-reliant, and thus indirectly change the reality of colonial life on the Korean peninsula, The Soil was vitally important to the social movements of the time, echoing the effects and reception of such English-language novels as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle"--
Notes: "Originally serialized in Korean as Hŭk in the Dong-A Ilbo (East Asia Times, Seoul, April 1932-July 1933"--Title page verso.