CATHARTIC HOMECOMING IN YUN HŬNGGIL’S NOVEL SEQUENCE THE ROAD TO SORADAN
CATHARTIC HOMECOMING IN YUN HŬNGGIL’S NOVEL SEQUENCE THE ROAD TO SORADAN

Summary/Abstract: Cathartic Homecoming in Yun Hŭnggil’s Novel Sequence The Road to Soradan. This paper deals with the contemporary South Korean novelist Yun Hŭnggil (b.1942)’s novel sequence The Road to Soradan, and discusses the implications of the adult narrators’ act of homecoming by focusing on the importance of war memory recollections, and on the idea of catharsis in relation to a spatial dimension – the hometown. The cathartic connotation of homecoming and the emotional effects those hometown places are charged with come into view as the adult narrators re-access their hometown, recollect their past and thus reconnect with its memories and with their own selves.

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