도서 소개
Central to the Korean pansori musical storytelling tradition is Chunhyangga, an eighteenth-century love story involving the romance between Yi Mongryong, heir to a noble family, and Chunhyang, daughter of a courtesan. In Chunhyang, novelist Jin Renshun reimagines that romance, challenging its premises and taking it in a radically new direction.
출판사 리뷰
Editorial Review
Review
Central to the Korean pansori musical storytelling tradition is Chunhyangga, an eighteenth-century love story involving the romance between Yi Mongryong, heir to a noble family, and Chunhyang, daughter of a courtesan. In Chunhyang, novelist Jin Renshun reimagines that romance, challenging its premises and taking it in a radically new direction.
Chunhyang is the story of a mother and a daughter’s quests for independence and self-worth in a world where women are too often confined and devalued. Beautifully told, blending lyricism with humor, Chunhyang introduces us to a memorable cast of charactersfrom powerful officials to orphaned childrenand carries us toward a dramatic and poignant conclusion.
Synopsis
Chunhyang’s mother is the daughter of an apothecary, and beautiful beyond compare. While young, she falls in love with a noble official who spends a huge sum of money to build her a house, which comes to be known as Attar Lodge. There Chunhyang is born, and there her mother acquires fame as Lady Hyang, praised byhackwritersandpansori(solo lyrical opera) singers alike.
Over time, Attar Lodge becomes the home to a number of other underprivileged people: an abandoned woman, an impoverished gentleman, the son of a singsong girl, the daughter of a thief. Despite their lowsocial status, they enjoy life to its fullest. Their stories attract many visitors, such as lustful businessmen, young men yearning for fame, and arrogant nobles.
Yi Mongryong, son of a prominent family, meets Chunhyang by chance at the Dano Festival and is immediately smitten. He mistakes her for Lady Hyang and goes to her mother’s house at midnight. But Mongryong is no different from other men before him: his love interest is no more than a fleeting fancy, for he has other ambitions. Lady Hyang useshackwriters andpansorisingers to exaggerate and spread the love story of Chunhyang and Mongryong, turning itinto a classic legend.
The new Namwon magistrate,Byeon Hakdo, tries to force Chunhyang to marry him.Lady Hyang comes up with a dramatic idea to prevent that from happening, and Chunhyang also makes a decision that is totally different from the one we know in the classic Chunhyangga.
작가 소개
지은이 : 진런순
장편소설 『춘향』, 중단편 소설집 『복사꽃』, 『소나무 마을』, 『나의 벗 금지에게』, 그리고 산문집 『백합같이 하얀』과 『중생』을 썼다. 춘신창작문학상, 준마문학상 소수민족 작가상, 장중문 문학상, 중국작가출판그룹상, 임근란 단편소설상, 인민문학단편상, 단편소설선정작, 월간 소설 백화상, 시월문학상 등 다양한 수상 경력이 있다. 몇몇 작품은 영어, 한국어, 아랍어, 일본어, 러시아어, 독일어, 몽골어로 번역 출간되었다. 현재 중국작가협회 회장단으로 활동하고 있으며 지린성 작가협회 회장을 맡고 있다.Her works include the novel Chunhyang, the short story and novella collections Peach Blossom, The Pine Town, and In Commemoration of My Friend Jin Zhi, and the essay collections White as a Lily and Sentient Beings. She has won many honors including the Chunshen Original Literary Award, Junma Literary Awards for Ethnic Minority Writers, Chuang Chung-Wen Literary Award, China Writers Publishing Group Award, Lin Jinlan Short Story Award, People’s Literature Short Story Award, Short Story Award of Selected Stories, Novel Monthly Hundred Flowers Award, and October Literature Award. Her works have been translated into English, Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, German, and Mongolian. She is a member ofthe presidium ofthe ChinaWritersAssociation and chair of the Jilin Writers Association.
목차
Part I
Lady Hyang
The Hallim Vice Commissioner
Attar Lodge
Chunhyang
Lady Hyang
Gimsu
Sodan
Mr. Bongju
Chunhyang
The Hallim Vice Commissioner’s Widow
The Palace Music Master
Gimsu and I
Mr. Bongju
Part II
Eungil
Sodan and Me
Yi Mongryong
Chunhyang
Yi Mongryong
Chunhyang
The New Prefect
Byeon Hakdo
The Pansori Performer
Oksu the Scholar
Gimsu, or Sapience
Lady Hyang
Chunhyang