Book Reviews

A Review of The Amusing Life by Song Sokze, just one sketch

Nowinlove 2021. 2. 21. 11:03

The author, famed a long time for being voluble in South Korea, Song Sokze's 51 tiny sketches are gathered in his book "The Amusing Life". translated to English by Se-un Kim, to challenge and gently humour the audience's wit.  The 5-page anecdotal night is long for this young driver who is driving home off duty - This is a car ride that leads to an encounter with a pretty, thoroughly tearful girl. I do not mention main characters' name, because there wasn't any in the book. As this book has obviously decided to be a spire of anecdotes, I'll just pick number two, The Ghost-Catching Civil Service Guard, to analyze. The witticism throughout the book is clear. In the story, the driver picks up the girl and runs on the hill, Fox Hill, to the nearby town. She turns out not to be the ghostly fox lady who is on her trip over real Fox Hill. The mythical fox makes no appearance. She is a real girl with an ID card. At the end of her ride, she is discovered crying her eyes out over dead family members, and from then on our young driver follows her around, arriving at sweet mutual marriage status.