The Return of the Literature

A new collection of essays by Choi Won-sik. He tries to break through in literary discussion with the alternative idea of the return of the Literature, which means overcoming both 1990s” immoderate reaction to 1980s” literature and an overloaded ideological consciousness in literary works of the 1980s as well. He conceives of the intercommunication of Realism and Modernism as he reinterprets the East-Asia classics through the eyes of “Minjung”(people). This book sheds critical light on recent literary discourses and examines diverse theories to “achieve” and “overcome” modernity in Korea.