The Reverse Side of Life

On assignment to write about one of South Korea's most unique writers, a journalist begins to carefully reconstruct the author's childhood through his novels, press articles and interviews.

Lee Seung-U is professor of Korean literature at Chosun University. He marked his writing début in 1981 by winning the Han’guk Munhak New Writer Prize for Portrait of Erysichton. He is the author of About an Eclipse, Gu Pyeong-mok’s Cockroach, In the Beginning Was Temptation, Legend of Love, Magnolia Park, People Don’t Even Know What Is In Their House, The Private Life of Plants, Shade of a Thornbush, Speculations on a Labyrinth, and Who Else is Inside Me? He was awarded the Daesan Literature Prize and the East West Literature Prize.