영혼의 물질적인 밤
- Page
- 196
- Publication Date
- September 25, 2023
- ISBN
- 9788932042138
He’s a poet, a novelist, a critic
—and most importantly, your fellow traveler.
In Material Night of Soul, the author gets off the trans-Siberian railway and begins walking without pause from Changyeongwon Park of his childhood to the Literature House Seoul. While concentrating on the act of writing, he doesn’t rely on a specific topic or follow the conventional narrative progression. Chapter One, written in 2004 and 2007, is set in a Russian winter where he reminisces about the days following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Chapter Two amasses the author’s brief notes from 2005 to 2015 on poetry, fiction, philosophy, and freedom. Chapter Three contains longer essays on the zoo, Literature House, and Kinkakuji of Kyoto. Finally, Chapter Four returns to the present and illustrates the landscape of Budapest, where a poet dives into a pile of snow, a novelist watches the saliva dripping from an animal’s gape, a critic meets Lenin at the chocolate museum, and a traveler unwinds at a Chinese restaurant after walking all day. Revealing the other side of Lee Jangwook, Material Night of Soul will take anyone who craves the crisp breeze to the right place.