A new take on a national hero
2010-02-03
Yi Mun-yol, one of the country's top writers, has put out a new novel titled "Bulmyeol" (Immortality). It is a semi-biographical take on the national hero An Jung-geun (1879-1910).
"In the early stage of writing, I wanted to fully fictionalize his life, but his life is too close to our times and some of the details were unfit for a full-fledged fiction, so I shifted the novel's format to a critical biography," said Yi at a news conference held in Seoul yesterday.
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