Evening Proposal is a collection of eight stories about the grim and often faceless nature of urban life. Faintly reminiscent of Franz Kafka, the stories range from a man who discovers that his job performance has no significance while taking refuge in taking care of an abandoned rabbit to a man who finally expresses his love to discover that his expression frightened him more than his fear in anticipating the event. Evening Proposal reissues the warning that the orderliness and system that civilization created in order to confront nature's chaos is in fact "the hell of monotony."

About the Author

Pyun Hye-young was born in Seoul in 1972. She graduated from with a creative writing degree from Seoul Institute of Arts; and a graduate degree in Korean Literature from Hanyang University. Her writing debut was in 2000 with her short story "Shaking off the dew" that was the winning entry in the Seoul Shinmun's Spring Literary Contest.

Park Youngsuk has taught Korean Studies abroad for over the past ten years in universities in U.S. and Europe. She translated and published books related to Korean arts and history, and her own English poems were translated and published in Romania.

Gloria Cosgrove Smith graduated from the State University of New York majoring in English Literature and took Creative Writing in the Graduate School of Cornell University. Currently she lives in Florida and is working on her novel.

Book Information
ISBN 9781628971545
Author Hye-young Pyun
Format Paperback
Page Count 230
Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
Publisher Dalkey Archive Press