Literature and Its Readership in the Changing World

<KR>
지난 반세기 동안 인류의 삶에서 일어난 급격하고 급진적인 변화만큼이나 문학의 환경도 변화했습니다. 시장 세계화와 함께 문학 작품은 문화 상품으로 포장되어 판매되고, 문학의 경계가 모호해지고 얽혀 '하이브리드'와 '융합' 문화를 탄생시켰습니다. 멀티미디어 시대에는 텍스트가 이전의 권위를 박탈당하고 문학은 전자 및 비디오 콘텐츠와 경쟁하게 됩니다. 이제 문학이 새로운 환경에서 살아남기 위해서는 새로운 미디어와 제휴하거나 새로운 문학 형식을 발명해야 합니다.

문학과 독자들은 이 근본적인 전환의 시대에 어떻게 적응하고 있으며, 작가들은 어떻게 대응해야 할까요? '변화하는 세상에서의 문학과 그 독자성'은 다양한 문화적 배경을 가진 작가들이 제안한 이러한 질문에 대한 답변을 모은 책입니다. '우리'와 '그들', '세계화 세계/멀티미디어 시대의 문학', '작가와 시장'이라는 제목의 세 섹션에 걸쳐 노벨상 수상자인 스베틀라나 알렉시예비치와 장마리 구스타브 르 클르지오, 탈식민주의 문학 거장 누루딘 파라, 아미타브 고쉬, 앙투안 콩파뇽, 로버트 하스, 오마르 P?레즈 롭스, 히라노 케이이치로 등 세계적인 문학 거장들이 자신의 견해를 대변합니다.

<ENG>
As much as the rapid and radical changes that have occurred in the lives of mankind during the past half century, the circumstances of literature have also changed. With market globalization, literary works are packaged and sold as cultural products, and literary boundaries have become obscured and intertwined to give rise to “hybrid” and “fusion” cultures. In the age of multi-media, text is stripped of its former authority and literature competes with electronic and video content. For literature to now survive in this new environment, it must affiliate itself with the new media or invent new literary forms.

How are the literature and the readers adapting to this age of fundamental transition, and how should writers respond? Literature and Its Readership in the Changing World is a compilation of answers to these questions proposed by writers of various cultural backgrounds. Throughout three sections entitled “Perceiving ‘Us’ and ‘Them,’” “Literature in the Globalizing World/Age of Multimedia,” and “Writers and the Market,” Nobel Prize laureates Svetlana Alexievich and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Cl?zio, post-colonialist literature master Nuruddin Farah, and other world-class literary masters such as Amitav Ghosh, Antoine Compagnon, Robert Hass, Omar P?rez Lop?z, and Keiichiro
Hirano voice their views.


<FR>
Tout comme les changements rapides et radicaux qui se sont produits dans la vie de l'humanité au cours du dernier demi-siècle, les circonstances de la littérature ont également changé. Avec la mondialisation du marché, les œuvres littéraires sont emballées et vendues comme produits culturels, et les frontières littéraires sont devenues obscures et entrelacées pour donner naissance à des cultures « hybrides » et « fusionnées ». À l'ère du multimédia, le texte est dépouillé de son autorité antérieure et la littérature est en concurrence avec le contenu électronique et vidéo. Pour que la littérature survive maintenant dans ce nouvel environnement, elle doit s'affilier aux nouveaux médias ou inventer de nouvelles formes littéraires.

Comment la littérature et les lecteurs s'adaptent-ils à cette époque de transition fondamentale et comment les écrivains devraient-ils réagir? La littérature et son lectorat dans un monde en évolution est une compilation de réponses à ces questions proposées par des écrivains de divers horizons culturels. Dans trois sections intitulées "Percepting 'Us' et 'Them', "Littérature in the Globalizing World/Age of Multimedia", et "Writers and the Market", prix Nobel Svetlana Alexievich et Jean-Marie Gustave Le Cl?zio, maître littéraire postcolonialiste Nuruddin Farah, et autres maîtres littéraires de classe mondiale tels que Amoshavit, Antoine Compagnon, Robert Hass, Omar P?rez Lop?z et Keiichiro Hirano expriment leur point de vue.


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Foreword

Part 1 Perceiving “Us” and “Them”

◆ Keynote Speeches

Recollection of the Future | Svetlana Alexievich

[Russian] Воспоминание о будущем | Светлана Алексиевич

Thinking about “I” or “We” and Others | Ko Un

Us and Them, and Beyond: The Intersubjective Frames of Existence | Kim Uchang

Reflections: Neither Two nor One | Choi Won-shik

◆ Perceiving “Us” and “Them”

Us and Them | Yu Hua

[Chinese] 我??他? | 余?

The Site of the Other | Baek Min-suk

Dots, Lines, Planes, Layers | Kim Ae-ran

Perceiving “Us” and “Them” | Omar P?rez Lop?z

Unqualified as the Other | Chang Kang-myoung

The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi | Amitav Ghosh

Transcending Boundaries between Us and Them: Toward a Third Way | Kim Seong-Kon

How Does Poetry Deal with “Them”?: Some Thoughts in the Era of Armistice | Kim Sa-in

Reflections on Being “Hapa”: Living in the Borderlands as Both “Self” and “Other” | Nora Okja Keller

The Superstition of We, the Mystery of the Other | Kim Soom

Part 2 Literature in the Globalizing World / Age of Multimedia

◆ Keynote Speeches

Reading in Tongues | Antoine Compagnon

Dreaming Another World | Chong Hyon-jong

From Interviews with Le Monde and L’Humanit? | Hwang Sok-yong

Literature’s Power and Resistance in the Multimedia Age | Kim Seung-Hee

What Good Are Poets in a Globalized World? | Julia Kristeva

[French] ? quoi bon des po?tes dans le monde globalis? ? | Julia Kristeva

◆ Literature in the Globalizing World

New Overlapping Territories of Literature and Culture | Ben Okri

Garbage and Ghost | Kim Hyesoon

Rediscovering the World and Its Literature | Bang Hyeon-seok

Humans and Stories | Jeong You-jeong

One Single Writer | Park Hyoung su

The Language of Survival | Ha Jin

◆ Literature in the Age of Multimedia

After Multimedia: Speed, Mass, and the Future Literary | Stuart Moulthrop

You Must Drive an Exception into the Heart of Smug Routine:

The Command of Literature and Art in the Social Media Age | Jeong Myeong-kyo

When the Text Is Liquefied in the Liquid Crystal Display | Kim Yeon-su

My View of What Literature Means in the Multimedia Age | Jan Costin Wagner

[German] Gedanken zur Bedeutung von Literatur im Zeitalter von Multimedia | Jan Costin Wagner

Algebra, Fire, and Trees | Kim Kyung-uk

More Mouths and Ears? Is Quiet Time a Possibility for Us? | Jin Eun-young

Part 3 Writers and the Market

◆ Keynote Speeches

Literature in the Market | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Cl?zio

[French] Litt?rature sur la place du march? | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Cl?zio

Author and Market: The Production and Consumption of Literature | Yu Jongho

Murakami-ism and the Market | Hyun Ki-Young

Reflections | Oh Jung-hee

◆ Writers and the Market

Priceless: Some Notes on Poetry and the Market | Robert Hass

The Conflicts that Have Shaped My Life | Nuruddin Farah

Where Is the Literature Flea Market?: Minor Literature in the Age of Pop Culture | Yi In-seong

What Literature Can Do | Lim Chul-woo

The Author and Marketing | Hirano Keiichiro

[Japanese] 作家とマ?ケティング | 平野 啓一?

Footnotes on A Writer of Our Time | Lee Seung-u

The Author and the Market | Hwang Sun-mi

Purpose Statement for the Seoul International Forum for Literature 2017