· Yi Mun-yol was born in He made his debut as a writer in Yi’s works were enriched by the classics of East Asia that he had naturally become familiar with during his childhood and the Western literature that he had voraciously devoured in his young adulthood. Our Twisted Hero is an allegorical depiction of the mechanism of how. · Book review: Yi Mun-yol — Our Twisted Hero. by Philip Gowman posted 8 Apr updated 8 Apr in History | Books. 4 minute read. Yi Mun-yol: Our Twisted Hero Originally published Translated by Kevin O’Rourke Available on Kindle (Minumsa, ) or hard copy (Hyperion Books, )Reviews: 2. Yi Mun-Yol. ratings93 reviews. When the twelve-year-old narrator of Our Twisted Hero moves to a small town and enrolls in the local school, he's confident that his big city sophistication will establish him as a natural leader. He is shocked to find his new classmates and teacher under the spell of /5.
Yi Mun-yol (born ) is a South Korean writer. Yi's given name at birth was Yol; the character, Mun (which translates as "writer"), was added after he took up a writing career. His works include novels, short stories and Korean adaptations of classic Chinese novels as well as political and social commentaries. An informal count has estimated that over 30 million copies of his books. Yi Mun-yol was born in He made his debut as a writer in Yi's works were enriched by the classics of East Asia that he had naturally become familiar with during his childhood and the Western literature that he had voraciously devoured in his young adulthood. Our Twisted Hero is an allegorical depiction of the mechanism of how. found: Son of man, ECIP t.p. (Yi Mun-yol [in rom.]) data view (born in Seoul, May, ; he the author of numerous books, including Hail to the Emperor!, Our Twisted Hero, and the novella Saehagok, which won the New Spring Literary Contest sponsored by Dong-a-Ilbo; he is among South Korea's most celebrated writers; currently a chair professor at Hunkuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul).
Our Twisted Hero is both the story of a student dealing with a classroom bully and also a political allegory with hints of Orwell's Animal Farm, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and a fair bit of Golding's Lord of the Flies. The political allegory, of course, is intended to refer to Korea and its recent history. Our twisted hero. by. Yi, Mun-yŏl, ; O'Rourke, Kevin. Publication date. Topics. Bullying, Totalitarianism. Publisher. Our Twisted Hero is a novel by South Korean author Yi Munyol. Set sometime between the s and s, it is an allegory of Korea’s dictatorship and widespread political corruption during this period, and its slow, painful, but ultimately triumphant democratization.
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