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Tales of the strange by a Korean Confucian monk = Kŭmo sinhwa by Kim Sisŭp / translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Dennis Wuerthner.

by Kim, Si-sŭp, 1435-1493, author.

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Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2020]

9780824882594 (hardcover)

0824882598 (hardcover)

Korean classics library. Historical materials.

ix, 388 pages ; 24 cm

Biography of Master Maewŏltang (Maewŏltang sŏnsaeng chŏn) / by Yun Ch'unnyŏn -- Account of a Chŏp'o Game at Manbok Temple (Manboksa chŏp'o ki) -- Biography of Scholar Yi Who Peered over the Wall (Yi-saeng -- kyujang chŏn) -- Travel Record of a Drunken Excursion to Pubyŏk Pavilion (Ch'wiyu pubyŏkchŏng ki) -- Gazetteer of the Southern Continent Yŏmbu (Namyŏmbuju chi) -- Report of [Scholar Han] Attending a Banquet in the Dragon Palace (Yonggung puyŏn rok) -- Written at the End of the First Collection [of Kŭmo sinhwa] (Sŏ kapchip-hu).

"One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kŭmo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange artfully written in literary Chinese by Kim Sisŭp (1435-1493). Kim was a major intellectual and poet of the early Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1897), and this book is widely recognized as marking the beginning of classical fiction in Korea"--

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