A Contrived World
2011
First Published
3.46
Average Rating
294
Number of Pages
Set in San Francisco, "A Most Contrived World" recounts the author s visit to the mythic Californian city. While the novel is based in this real experience, the narrator s imaginative reflections cause the narrative to balloon outward into the realms of fiction and fantasy. Each chance encounter provides an opportunity to unfurl a fictional world that simultaneously complements and compromises the real world. In this mirthful anti-novel, the ambiguous fusion of observation and invention disrupts the conventions of personal memoir and travel writing, resulting in a chronicle that sets fiction against experience."
Avg Rating
3.46
Number of Ratings
28
5 STARS
21%
4 STARS
29%
3 STARS
32%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
7%
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Author
Young-moon Jung
Author · 5 books
정영문 Novelist, short-story writer, translator, playwright, and teacher, Jung Young-moon was born in Hamyang, South Korea, in 1965. He graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in psychology. He made his literary debut in 1996 when his novel A Man Who Barely Exists. He has also translated more than forty English books into Korean.
