Exile: A Fearsome Yet Special Journey

This book offers an integrated approach to the history of exile and exile literature—a "true story of exile." Among various exile records, the book focuses on exile songs (gasa). Particularly through the exile stories of An Do-hwan, author of "Maneonsa" (Ten Thousand Words), and Kim Jin-hyeong, author of "Bukcheonga" (Song of the Northern Stream)—both masterpieces that enjoyed considerable popularity among female readers of their time and later generations—readers can reflect in an entertaining yet serious way on what it means to live as humans, who we are as people trying to put down roots here and now or still striving to do so, and how we should adapt and live.