Kim Chi-soo: The Structure of Literature and Criticism

Kim Chi-soo’s collection of critical essays, *The Structure of Literature and Criticism*, fully captures the intellectual efforts of a critic who sought to critically reflect on the violence of reality. In the midst of the scandalous 1980s, when political reality was sickening the mind and destroying language, Kim Chi-soo remained by the side of seemingly powerless literature, steadily continuing his critical search for a better reality. For him, literature signified a new linguistic possibility imprinted with so-called “records of painful happiness.” The method of intellectual practice aimed at drawing out such possibilities can be summarized by the concept of “structure.”

Korean title: 문학과 비평의 구조

Korean author: 김치수

Korean publisher: 문학과지성사

ISBN-13: 9788932027883