Book reviews -- Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction translated and edited by Marshall R. Pihl and Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton

LAND OF EXILE: Contemporary Korean Fiction. Translated and edited by MArshall R. Pihl and Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton. Armonk (New York): M.E. Sharpe. 1993. xviii, 284 pp. US$35.00, cloth, ISBN 1-56324-194-3; US$14.95, paper, ISBN 1-56324-195-1.

This anthology consists of representative Korean short stories by contemporary Korean writers. Translation is elegantly done, and the brief biographical entry to each author provides a useful guideline for the selected works, together with their sociopolitical contexts.

Several technical and conceptual problems may be pointed...