Cho Se-Hee is one of the representative writers of the Korea in 1970s and his A small ball a dwarf fired is evaluated as a masterpiece of the fictions of working classes. As a fiction of left-wing and of fictions of resistance. A small ball a dwarf fi...
Cho Se-Hee is one of the representative writers of the Korea in 1970s and his A small ball a dwarf fired is evaluated as a masterpiece of the fictions of working classes. As a fiction of left-wing and of fictions of resistance. A small ball a dwarf fired has been intentionally interpreted and overestimated by many critics and literary historians. But the novel have many features that could be interpreted as a fiction of modernism. And the structure of the novel is compound in the sense of social context and the narrative strategy is very delicate. The condition of the novel and its contents demand further inquiry This thesis examine this novel as a social practice of Korean society in the 1970s. The government had carry out three policy that gave the first consideration to the exportation. So during this periods, the working classes is needed to control and the so the labor pay scales. So Korean society in the 1970s is the periods of must face the large scale resistances of the working classes. In this respect A small ball a dwarf fired is the narrative trnsformations of that social conflicts in those days. And by the notions of Foucaulian perspective, A small ball a dwarf fired could be interpretated as the fictional testimony that working classes of Korea are inspected by the panopticon of society. So A small ball a dwarf fired have a structural homology with Korean society in the 1970s.