A Sudden Downpour
소낙비
김유정 · Korean
A destitute couple in a Gangwon mountain village need two won.
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A destitute couple in a Gangwon mountain village need two won. The husband gambles and beats her; the wife, out of options, is steered toward a way of raising the money that her husband ultimately encourages. Kim Yu-jeong's 1935 debut refuses both melodrama and judgement, and the sudden downpour of the title arrives without washing anything clean.
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김유정
Kim Yu-jeong (1908-1937) was a Korean novelist who wrote about the rural poor of Gangwon Province in a comic voice that never condescends. Spring, Spring and The Camellias are told by narrators slower than the reader, and the humour rarely hides how little the characters have. He died of tuberculosis at twenty-nine.
A Sudden Downpour
소낙비
김유정 · Korean
A destitute couple in a Gangwon mountain village need two won.
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음산한 검은 구름이 하늘에 뭉게뭉게 모여드는 것이 금시라도 비 한줄기 할 듯하면서도 여전히 짓궂은 햇발은 겹겹 산속에 묻힌 외진 마을을 통째로 자실 듯이 달구고 있었다. 이따금 생각나는 듯 살매들린 바람은 논밭간의 나무들을 뒤흔들며 미쳐 날뛰었다. 뫼 밖으로 농꾼들을 멀리 품앗이로 내보낸 안말의 공기는 쓸쓸하였다. 다만 맷맷한 미루나무숲에서 거칠어가는 농촌을 읊는 듯 매미의 애끓는 노래…. 매움! 매애움! 춘호는 자기 집 - 올봄에 오 원을 주고 사서 들은 묵삭은 오막살이집 - 방문턱에 걸터앉아서 바른 주먹으로 턱을 고이고는 봉당에서 저녁으로 때울 감자를 씻고 있는 아내를 묵묵히 노려보고 있었다. 그는 사날 밤이나 눈을 안 붙이고 성화를 하는 바람에 농사에 고리삭은 그의 얼굴은 더욱 해쓱하였다.
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Pagera Editor's Note
A destitute couple in a Gangwon mountain village need two won. The husband gambles and beats her; the wife, out of options, is steered toward a way of raising the money that her husband ultimately encourages. Kim Yu-jeong's 1935 debut refuses both melodrama and judgement, and the sudden downpour of the title arrives without washing anything clean.
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김유정
Kim Yu-jeong (1908-1937) was a Korean novelist who wrote about the rural poor of Gangwon Province in a comic voice that never condescends. Spring, Spring and The Camellias are told by narrators slower than the reader, and the humour rarely hides how little the characters have. He died of tuberculosis at twenty-nine.
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