The Little Ball Shot up by the Dwar

The Little Ball Shot up by the Dwarf is a hybrid book in many respects. And there are many works of the similar kind now being written by young writers. It even has a genre name, yunjak sosul, "short stories in sequence". The whole trend appears to mark the last stage in the evolution of the modern Korean novel. It may be that the novel in the Western sense is only in the process of being acclimatized. Social forces and various ways of perceiving them must emerge before the novel could be naturalized as a way of organizing contemporary experience. It is significant that The Little Ball Shot up by the Dwarf deals with an industrial situation, largely a consequence of the Western impact.