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Format ebook. ISBN Author JaHyun Kim Haboush. Publisher University of California Press. The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is a unique exploration of Korean selfhood and of how the genre of autobiography fared in premodern times. Media The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong. Save Not today. Format ebook. About the Book Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature.
Haboush must be congratulated for an exemplary annotated translation that preserves the tone and color of the original texts.
Part of what makes these memoirs so gripping is the threat of erasure, present from the start. Take the storyline of the Chinese movie "The forbidden city", mak This book is an excellent historical and women classic novel detailing the tumultuous family life of the palace during the 18th century in Korea. Take the storyline of the Chinese movie "The forbidden city", make it more personnal, dramatic and korean, and you get this novel.
This is the first book I read from a Korean author and want to read more novels from Korea. Sep 17, Al Anoud rated it really liked it. This book is a translation of a true accounting memoirs of a Korean court lady named Lady Hyegyong during the Choson dynasty in Lady Hyegyong recounted the harrowing events that befell her and her family for simply associating with the royal family.
It is truly a sad recounting that fills your heart with rage and sorrow over what happened to her Ladyship and makes you ponder about the past in quite refreshing way.
It is truly one of those books that puts in the narrators shoes and change This book is a translation of a true accounting memoirs of a Korean court lady named Lady Hyegyong during the Choson dynasty in It is truly one of those books that puts in the narrators shoes and changes your viewpoint on the world.
Nov 10, Samah rated it liked it. As I see in dramas royal family drink poison, but here Prince Sado faced a worse ending. Mar 11, Brendan rated it it was amazing. On the surface, The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong is the autobiographical story of a crown princess of eighteenth-century Korea.
Scratch that surface, and what unfolds is an epic that reaches the likes of a Shakespearean tragedy, themes of love, loss, and duty pouring from the pages. It is an inherently poetic and tragic text, one that deserves as much time and consideration as any written by the bard. It is also history in the making, and it defies genre.
As JaHyun Kim Haboush writes in the introductory essay, the text should be thought of as not just an autobiography, but a family injunction, a memorial, a biography, and a historiography The family injunction portion is particularly interesting, and it practically means that parts of the text are addressed to real-life characters that lived and died, both in real-life and in the pages of Lady Hyegyong.
This complicates the text in an interesting and unique way, especially for modern readers. A central theme in Thomas C. The 18th century Korean Confucian society can seem alien to the modern reader. Understanding the text relies on understanding such concepts as the importance of filial piety, the rigid and unrelenting structure of the patriarchy, and the court system of concubines, among others.
However, Kim Haboush does an excellent job of explaining the grammar, cultural or otherwise. Another grammar that should be considered in an evaluation of this text is how the story gets told.
Kim Haboush addresses this in an introductory essay, explaining that some adaptations or translations of the text have been presented chronologically, and not as Lady Hyegyong wrote them.
The memoirs of would be presented first, cut up and interspersed between the other memoirs. We also get to see characters, places and themes again and again throughout the memoirs. For Lady Hyegyong, how history remembers her family is important, and she wants to bear witness, to tell her side of the infamous story of how a son was ordered to death by his father. The memoirs of are devoted almost entirely to vindicating her brother, and the memory of her father and husband are central themes in the other memoirs.
Lady Hyegyong bears witness to both the private and the public, and she does so with a voice that is uniquely different from other primary sources. Others have written about this in a more succinct and intelligent way, but the text is revolutionary. Written in the vernacular Korean and not Chinese , it is witness to a changing history. The point of view as well is unique and revolutionary.
In summary, these memoirs are a unique and important primary source of a history that is often overlooked. It is true that it is difficult to read and digest the story, but JaHyun Kim Haboush does an excellent job of providing the grammar that one needs to fully appreciate the marvel that is this memoir.
May 08, NotEnoughNewts rated it really liked it. These memoirs are quite remarkable, not just because they are written by a woman who is writing about herself which is unusual in the pre-modern world but also because they record some really dramatic events in a compelling way. In the first memoir, she describes the basic shape of her life, her family, and the values of society that defined her role in it. This section can be kind of dry, partly because of the emphasis on filial piety, partly because Lady Hyegyeong is incredibly careful about how she frames and describes people—I got the feeling that, despite her advanced age and elevated position, she had to be very cautious about what she said to avoid repercussions which is confirmed later on.
It provides important context for understanding how people act in later sections, but its slow pacing made it significantly harder to read than the other three sections. Put simply, it reads like a gothic horror, with a slowly deteriorating circumstances that everyone tries to mitigate even past the point of that being tenable. If you only read one section, this should be it.
A series of four memoirs by the wife of a deceased murdered Korean prince, and the mother of a subsqeuent king.
This is a tremendously sad story; the reader feels the constant stress as the author contemplates suicide throughout, and fears for her life and her son's. Lady Hyegong enjoyed a happy childhood with kindly and intelligent parents. Picked as a child to be the wife of the Crown Prince Sado , her first memoir recounts the trauma of being removed from her home to the formality o A series of four memoirs by the wife of a deceased murdered Korean prince, and the mother of a subsqeuent king.
Picked as a child to be the wife of the Crown Prince Sado , her first memoir recounts the trauma of being removed from her home to the formality of the court.
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