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Article: Han Sorya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK.
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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Korea
North Korean literature is virtually unknown in the West. Brian Myers's Han Sorya and North Korean Literature, published by the Cornell University East Asia Program, presents Han Sorya's life through North Korean literature. Han (1900-707) was one of the most prominent writers of prose fiction in the history of North Korea. As the chairman of his country's Federation of Literature and Art from 1948 to 1962, he played a decisive role in all the major events and policy developments on the Pyongyang literary scene, "while devising in his own writings the iconography of a personality cult which has since come to dominate every facet of life in North Korea." Since ...