The late beloved Korean novelist Choi In-ho (1945-2013)’s novel “Another Man’s City” was published in English in the United States this week.
“Another Man’s City” is the author’s last full-length novel written in 2011 before he died in September 2013 at age 68 after a long battle with cancer. The novel centers on protagonist K, who experiences gradual and increasing shifts and changes in everything he believed to be true.
The scenario of the novel is reminiscent of Peter Weir’s 1998 film “The Truman Show” and Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “The Unconsoled,” according to the publisher Dalkey Archive Press, which specializes in translating foreign books in the U.S.
“The novel is a symbolic protest against the arrogantly mundane approach of the strain of realism that, cloaked in the guise of humanism, has dominated modern Korean fiction,” said professor Kwon Young-min of the book. “Choi challenges us to consider new possibilities for literature in an age when the divine is largely absent from literary art.”
