A Contrived World (Korean Literature)

Set in San Francisco, A Most Contrived World recounts the author's visit to the mythic Californian city. While the novel is based in this real experience, the narrator's imaginative reflections cause the narrative to balloon outward into the realms of fiction and fantasy. Each chance encounter provides an opportunity to unfurl a fictional world that simultaneously complements and compromises the real world. In this mirthful anti-novel, the ambiguous fusion of observation and invention disrupts the conventions of personal memoir and travel writing, resulting in a chronicle that sets fiction against experience.

Author: Jung Young-Moon|Yong-mun Chong, Jeffrey Karvonen

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Publication Date: Jun 24, 2016

Number of Pages: 163 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1564789551

ISBN-13: 9781564789556