Depth and emotion beyond "Song of the Sword" Kim Hoon's lifelong task that he had to write 'The best writer of our time' Novelist Kim Hoon, who is called 'the writer of writers', has published a new full-length novel, Harbin. 『Harbin』 i ...
Depth and emotion beyond "Song of the Sword" Kim Hoon's lifelong task that he had to write 'The best writer of our time' Novelist Kim Hoon, who is called 'the writer of writers', has published a new full-length novel, Harbin. 『Harbin』 is a special work that Kim Hoon has made as a life task throughout his career as a writer. Since his youth, the writer had a plan to write a novel about Ahn Jung-geun's short and intense life, and spent a long time to understand the 'human Ahn Jung-geun' deeply in order to cope with the energy emitted by Ahn Jung-geun's movements. And in the summer of 2022, after fierce and desperate writing, the result was finally presented to the world. In 『Harbin』, Kim Hoon's writing style, which solidly reconstructs the life of a real person who is easy to summarize with thorough imagination rather than historical records, shines. This narrative naturally reminds me of Hoon Kim's representative work, 『Song of the Sword』. If 『Song of the Sword』 portrayed Yi Sun-shin's fluctuating inner side, which was overshadowed by his achievements as a great commander, 『Harbin』 lifted the shadow of the hero that was overshadowed by Ahn Jung-geun. and bring back his hottest and most confusing time to the present. Hoon Kim's gaze, which focuses on the inner side of a weak human facing the fate of going through the turbulent times, weaves deeper and more subtle scenes in 『Harbin』. In the novel, the wave of imperialism symbolized by Hirobumi Ito collides with the pure passion of youth symbolized by Ahn Jung-geun, the cause and ethics of a man facing the grave sin of murder collide, and Ahn Jung-geun's religious piety as a Catholic and his human nature as a worldly man collide. Hatred collides. This work, which agilely handles the complex conflicts taking place on various levels and raises the level of vision for the character Ahn Jung-geun, is not lacking in being introduced as Kim Hoon's new representative work.
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