Arriving in a Thick Fog

- Reviews -

"Maudlin and meandering. . . The questions the narrator contemplates are often rich, the ruminations on art and life, reality and the imaginary, and animal and human consciousness. " --Publishers Weekly "Each time Dallas-based publisher Deep Vellum releases a book by Korean novelist Jung Young Moon, a new batch of readers gain exposure to his vivid, bewildering work. . . Readers who appreciate Jung Young Moon' s strange, distinct style will be keen to dive into Deep Vellum' s backlist of his other books, each one like a lucid dream well worth getting lost in. "- Julie Poole, Texas Observer On Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River:"Dispassionate, subversive, ambiguous, utterly cuckoo at times, Jung Young Moon has written a short masterwork of contemporary digression, a far distant cousin to Tristram Shandy (1759); but also a novel that acts as an antidote to our age of distraction because it takes real presence to follow the narrator' s mind, a mind that is looking to challenge the notions of fiction - to create fiction that one might hesitate to call fiction. " Splice Magazine "Impressive fluidity. . . Like a lucid dream. " Foreword ReviewsOn Vaseline Buddha:"Reading Vaseline Buddha feels like watching a magician who explains his trick as he performs it and yet still mesmerizes you with his sleight of hand. You simultaneously enter the dream and wake from it. . . This resistance underpinning the entire exercise makes Jung an heir to Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz, who understood that writing is the documentation of a dance the writer does between form and chaos. " Tyler Malone, Los Angeles Times

- Author Bio -

Jung Young Moon, born in 1965, is an award-winning Korean writer and translator. A graduate of Seoul National University with a degree in psychology, Jung is also an alum of the University of Iowa' s International Writing Program. In 2012, he won the Han Moo-suk Literary Award, the Dong-in Literary Award, and the Daesan Literary Award for his novel A Contrived World. He has been a resident at the University of California at Berkeley' s Center for Korean Study and the 100 West Corsicana Artists' & Writers' Residency in Texas, the latter of which inspired his novel Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River. Deep Vellum published his Vaseline Buddha in 2016 and Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River in 2019. Mah Eunji and Jeffrey Karvonen are a translating team based in Yong-in, South Korea. They are the recipients of three Literature Translation Institute of Korea Translation Grants and a Daesan Cultural Foundation Grant for Translation of a Literary Work. Their translation of Jung Young Moon' s A Contrived World was published in 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press.

- Full Details -

Status:	Publication Abandoned or Delayed Indefinitely
ISBN-13:	9781646050437
Published:	26 Aug 2021
Published In:	United States
Imprint:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Format:	Paperback
Height:	203mm
Width:	127mm
Pages:	176

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