{"product_id":"153436","title":"Why I liked the classics ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/uOtHEeC87UGhESBi1y8NOZKFgB1.png?v=1765004896\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Why I liked the classics \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/148485900\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eA sentence that has endured the storms of many years\u003cbr\u003e Wisdom and warmth, comfort and resonance…\u003cbr\u003e The value of a 'classic' that cannot be compared to anything else!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sometimes a short sentence can move a heart more than a long explanation.\u003cbr\u003e At the shaky crossroads of life, the sentences of the classics serve as a quiet answer. \u003cbr\u003e\"Why I Liked the Classics\" is a record of the comfort, insight, and inner change that the author, who has loved the classics, found in their sentences.\u003cbr\u003e This book does not start from the imperative that one must read the classics.\u003cbr\u003e Rather, it follows the journey of a person who slowly reflects on himself by chewing on old sentences and refines the direction of his life.\u003cbr\u003e 《Demian》 《Walden》 《The Death of Ivan Ilyich》 《The Land》 《Moby Dick》… In these classics, the author faced his own wounds and found clues to bear the weight of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author says:\u003cbr\u003e “Classics are not records of a bygone era.”\u003cbr\u003e Rather, it tells us in a quiet but firm voice that sentences that have withstood the ravages of time still pose valid questions and can touch the hearts of those living in this moment. \u003cbr\u003eFor those who have had to stop at some point in life, the experience of a single sentence patting them on the back and a single book lighting the way.\u003cbr\u003e That is precisely why we must now turn our attention to the classics again.\u003cbr\u003e \"Why I Liked the Classics\" is a journey of deep reading and a record of thought that follows the warmth of such old sentences.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Prologue: The Age That's Good for Reading Classics, and a Life That Needs Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1.\u003cbr\u003e Why I liked the classics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Time to lean on the classics in my Kerencia\u003cbr\u003e Can classics really change your life?\u003cbr\u003e The power to make you wait for the next bus\u003cbr\u003e Like filling a puddle with water, like digging a well deep\u003cbr\u003e Forty, the age when 'real study' begins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2.\u003cbr\u003e Where is there a life that is not shaken?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To be able to exist as existence itself - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis\u003cbr\u003e Holden Caulfield - J., a must-have in every teenage home.\u003cbr\u003e D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye \u003cbr\u003eComfort for a Shameful Life - Osamu Dazai's \"No Longer Human\"\u003cbr\u003e The problem is always the \"heart,\" my heart. - Natsume Soseki, \"Heart\"\u003cbr\u003e The Things You See When You Let Go of Prejudice - Raymond Carver, Cathedral\u003cbr\u003e There's no such thing as a life without ups and downs - Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 3.\u003cbr\u003e In the name of love, we endure each other\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the Hardships of Parenthood - Honoré de Balzac, \"Father Goriot\"\u003cbr\u003e The Unstoppable Advance of Mother - Romain Gary's \"Promise at Dawn\"\u003cbr\u003e How to Tell True Love - Somerset Maugham's \"The Veil of Life\"\u003cbr\u003e Growing Life, Fading Life - Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina\u003cbr\u003e A World in Need of Love - Émile Ajar's \"The Life Before Us\"\u003cbr\u003e The most special being to each other - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 4.\u003cbr\u003e Look at beauty even when you are sad\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA sad self-portrait of an office worker who ran forward without looking back - Kazuo Ishiguro's \"The Remains of the Day\"\u003cbr\u003e To all of us who live as salesmen - Arthur Miller's \"Death of a Salesman\"\u003cbr\u003e I'd rather not do it - Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener\u003cbr\u003e A Life of Constantly Digging Up Sand - Kobo Abe's \"The Woman in the Sand\"\u003cbr\u003e A Simple, But Solid Life - John Williams' Stoner\u003cbr\u003e The Joys and Sorrows of Those Who Follow Heaven's Blessings - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, \"Night Flight\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 5.\u003cbr\u003e Even if it's not perfect, the road continues.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A dichotomous society, slicing in two like a radish - Italo Calvino's \"The Viscount in Half\"\u003cbr\u003e How to Live Honest in an Absurd World - Albert Camus, \"The Stranger\"\u003cbr\u003e The Real Tragedy of Fake News - Heinrich Böll's \"The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum\"\u003cbr\u003e The Leader We Dream of, The World We Dream of - William Golding, Lord of the Flies \u003cbr\u003eObsession and Obsession: That Precarious Line - Herman Melville's \"Moby Dick\"\u003cbr\u003e I only lost my overcoat - Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 6.\u003cbr\u003e Living as 'me' even in the midst of uncertainty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If you suddenly hear an inner drumbeat - Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence\u003cbr\u003e Whom I Waiting for - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot\u003cbr\u003e Live simply, simply, simply - Henry David Thoreau, Walden\u003cbr\u003e A Life Undefeated - Ernest Hemingway's \"The Old Man and the Sea\"\u003cbr\u003e Unable to speak, it became writing; unbearable, it became literature - Park Kyung-ni's \"Land\"\u003cbr\u003e Writing that keeps me from getting lost in the noise of the world - George Orwell's \"Why I Write\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \"No Longer Human\" is the story of a soul who lived with shame and anxiety, but was unable to accept herself and ultimately collapsed. \u003cbr\u003eBut in it, not only Yojo, but also our own shadows are lingering.\u003cbr\u003e No one is completely okay.\u003cbr\u003e The stigma of disqualification is not something that is only placed on an individual, but can also be borne by families and society who fail to care for and love each other.\u003cbr\u003e So, who would dare to declare him disqualified?\u003cbr\u003e Perhaps we are all wounded, shaken, and imperfect beings living in our own way.\u003cbr\u003e Nevertheless, they try to understand each other again and have the courage to live on.\u003cbr\u003e That heart is perhaps the last proof of humanity.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.70 「Part 2.\u003cbr\u003e Where is there a life that is not shaken?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Life sometimes takes us in directions we don't want. \u003cbr\u003ePain and loss inevitably come along the journey, but as we go through that time, humans gradually shed their shells and find their true faces.\u003cbr\u003e It wasn't until Kitty lost everything that she finally faced herself honestly.\u003cbr\u003e I decide to no longer live to be chosen by anyone, and to live my own life without being in anyone's shadow.\u003cbr\u003e Even now, the novel \"The Veil of Life\" seems to tell modern people who have lost their \"true selves\" while living their lives covered in all kinds of glamour to fit the gaze of others to remove that veil and meet their \"true selves.\"\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.114-115 「Part 3.\u003cbr\u003e In the name of love, we endure each other\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Woman in the Sand\" is a breathtaking read, yet it also makes you slap your knees in its exquisite portrayal of human alienation and the endless cycle of labor. \u003cbr\u003eThe deepest impression this novel leaves is not one of simple tragedy or resignation.\u003cbr\u003e The fact is that humans are beings who find meaning in any conditions.\u003cbr\u003e Even in the seemingly meaningless routines and relationships we repeat every day, life can still be reinterpreted and rewritten.\u003cbr\u003e 《The Woman in the Sand》 quietly asks, leaving behind the cool and sad feeling of sand.\u003cbr\u003e Where are you trapped now?\u003cbr\u003e And what kind of meaning of life is being spread within it?\u003cbr\u003e Have you found your own 'water flow device'?\u003cbr\u003e --- p.163 「Part 4.\u003cbr\u003e From “Look at beauty even when you are sad”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Camus defined absurdity as “the conflict between man’s yearning for meaning in life and the world that gives him no meaning.”\u003cbr\u003e Meursault does not try to resolve the conflict. \u003cbr\u003eHe says that the only freedom humans have is to accept the inherent meaninglessness of life and to choose their attitude within that meaninglessness.\u003cbr\u003e A person who did not avoid, did not make excuses, and honestly faced even his own death.\u003cbr\u003e Meursault may have been the most transparent being who lived in an absurd world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.191-192 「Part 5.\u003cbr\u003e Even if it's not perfect, the road continues\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The desire to escape the reality of making a living and move towards art may be a universal human desire.\u003cbr\u003e Just as Sim Deok-chul, in his seventies, put on his ballet shoes, Strickland, in his forties, left for Paris, and Grandma Moses, in her eighties, pursued her dream of becoming a painter, each of us may have a dream hidden deep in a drawer. \u003cbr\u003eThere may come a time when, on a sunny and breezy day, you will want to carefully take out and look into the dream you have neglected while living in the throes of reality.\u003cbr\u003e Rather than shocking everyone like Strickland, how about we take small steps toward that dream in our daily lives, taking the time and heart to do so?\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- pp.226-227 「Part 6.\u003cbr\u003e From “Living as ‘Me’ Even in the midst of Shaking”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e“It’s not about why the classics are good, it’s about why I like them.”\u003cbr\u003e In the face of life's pervasive questions, the classics are the oldest and most steadfast light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Every day we stand at a crossroads of choice.\u003cbr\u003e Some choices change the mood of your day, and some choices change the course of your life.\u003cbr\u003e If among those countless choices there is 'reading the classics', it is not simply reading, but a decision that comes from within one who seeks to deeply understand life. \u003cbr\u003e“Why I Liked Classics” is a book that arose from such experiences of choice and encounter.\u003cbr\u003e The author asks:\u003cbr\u003e Why do classics still remain with us even now, and why do some sentences remain in our hearts for so long?\u003cbr\u003e And why do I keep stopping in front of that old sentence?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author is a reading activist who has been meeting people through books for a long time.\u003cbr\u003e For 27 years, I have worked as an educator and planner, reading books with people of all ages, from children to teenagers and adults. Believing in the power of \"reading together,\" I continue to teach classic reading and writing at Sungryemun Literature Center, libraries, and schools.\u003cbr\u003e She says.\u003cbr\u003e The questions posed by classics never become outdated, and they become even more vivid when read and shared together. \u003cbr\u003eThe agony of “to be or not to be” in Hamlet, the wavering before a choice in Anna Karenina, the self-awareness just before death in Ivan Ilyich… all these conflicts and reflections are remarkably similar to our lives today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book does not stop at quoting passages from the classics.\u003cbr\u003e The author honestly records how those sentences caught him at certain points in his life and how they gave him the strength to move forward again.\u003cbr\u003e Memories that came to mind as I turned the pages of the book, a line that shook my heart, and the time I spent refining myself while savoring that sentence unfold calmly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book proves, in the language of life, that reading classics is ultimately about confronting one's inner self through the stories of strangers.\u003cbr\u003e So, to those who have felt that the classics are unfamiliar and distant, this book quietly approaches them and says this. \u003cbr\u003eThe sentence you need most right now might be hidden in a classic written long ago.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The classics are not difficult.\u003cbr\u003e “Reading together makes it deeper and warmer.”\u003cbr\u003e The more I read, the more I see life, and the sentences that make me love myself again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Why I Liked the Classics\" is a book that provides direction for those who are new to reading classics, and allows those who have already read classics to sit down in front of them again.\u003cbr\u003e This book views reading classics not as an 'intellectual display' but as a 'process of recovering a sense of life.'\u003cbr\u003e It contains the time of people who hold on to long sentences, ponder and discuss them, and finally translate them into their own words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author says that classics contain deep questions that confront the essence of human existence.\u003cbr\u003e But that question is often too heavy to bear alone. \u003cbr\u003eThat's why it's important to read together.\u003cbr\u003e This is because we can look at the sentences again from each other's perspectives and hear the words the classics are telling us more clearly through each other's interpretations.\u003cbr\u003e This book is based on the author's experience of reading through \"brick books\" like \"The Land\" and \"Moby Dick\" through reading groups and repeatedly witnessing scenes where each other's lives and sentences intersect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reading classics means savoring the sentences that have passed through an era, and ultimately, looking back on one's own life.\u003cbr\u003e In the process, the reader is led to look deeper into relationships than knowledge, questions than answers, and the center than the appearance.\u003cbr\u003e The joy of reading classics conveyed in this book provides the starting point for such change. \u003cbr\u003eFor those who have reached a certain point in their lives, those who wish to re-establish their resolve, and those who wish to refine their inner strength through the warmth of classics read together, this book will be a long-term companion. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - 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