Sentences of Peaceful Nights and Bright Days
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Book Introduction
The pleasure of encountering the world's most classic prose today
Flowering Book Prose Collection "Night and Day Edition for Life's Walkers"
'Night and Day Edition for Life' is a two-volume collection of world-class prose that we must read.
Three young translators, who have spent much of their lives leaning on the broad embrace of literature, have come together to select works we have loved, love, and will love. They each took on works from the Anglo-American, European, and Japanese languages, meticulously and faithfully revisiting each word in Korean.
With Camus's words as a guidepost, "The duty we must fulfill while we live is to find every word and give it a name worthy of its light," I hope this will be a delightful gift for those who endure life through literature and color their lives like a walk.
Flowering Book Prose Collection "Night and Day Edition for Life's Walkers"
'Night and Day Edition for Life' is a two-volume collection of world-class prose that we must read.
Three young translators, who have spent much of their lives leaning on the broad embrace of literature, have come together to select works we have loved, love, and will love. They each took on works from the Anglo-American, European, and Japanese languages, meticulously and faithfully revisiting each word in Korean.
With Camus's words as a guidepost, "The duty we must fulfill while we live is to find every word and give it a name worthy of its light," I hope this will be a delightful gift for those who endure life through literature and color their lives like a walk.
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index
Introduction
01 Feeling like taking a walk
02 Night Walk
03 Morning walk
04 A Lonely Walk
05 What Walking Gave Us
06 1 that you can only meet if you stay awake at night
07 2 You can only meet if you stay awake at night
08 The night I was awake turned me around
09 You too, please try it once
10 Places Where Spring Almost Never Came
11 Where summer goes by so quickly
12 Where I cut down the tree
13 A place you'll never forget
14 It belongs to everyone, but to some only it is permitted.
15 How does he begin?
16 How could she get started?
17 Things You Can Say 'No' to Death
18 Spring is always like a miracle
19 The joy of summer is bare feet
20 The cunning devil called autumn
21 It's winter and it's night
22 How soft it is there, how quiet it is
23 The tuna swims against the current from east to west.
24 Where we went that year
25 Still retaining such infinite power
26 Yes, I liked you
27 Love everything that keeps you alive
28 Another Name for Love, Mother
29 A feast called family
30 Am I worth it?
Not thinking about time is living forever
32 The arrival of the prophet who burned the bridge to return with confidence
33 Strange World
34 Some cities share a secret love affair with us.
35 A place that is nowhere but exists
36 And orange scent
37 Actually, it was the sun that helped me
38 I don't want to turn back
39 Taming
40 Taming
41 Being Together
42 Wonders
43 Breaking up
44 Just because of sadness and fear
45 To the extent that you are conscious of the gap between your clothes and your body
46 Melancholy is the true secret of life.
47 Even if you don't necessarily imagine the end of the North Pole,
48 Yes, death is stronger than me.
49 Under the tranquil sunset
50 Lumberjacks made the sky useless
51 You are no longer there
52 Memento Mori
About the author
Original source
01 Feeling like taking a walk
02 Night Walk
03 Morning walk
04 A Lonely Walk
05 What Walking Gave Us
06 1 that you can only meet if you stay awake at night
07 2 You can only meet if you stay awake at night
08 The night I was awake turned me around
09 You too, please try it once
10 Places Where Spring Almost Never Came
11 Where summer goes by so quickly
12 Where I cut down the tree
13 A place you'll never forget
14 It belongs to everyone, but to some only it is permitted.
15 How does he begin?
16 How could she get started?
17 Things You Can Say 'No' to Death
18 Spring is always like a miracle
19 The joy of summer is bare feet
20 The cunning devil called autumn
21 It's winter and it's night
22 How soft it is there, how quiet it is
23 The tuna swims against the current from east to west.
24 Where we went that year
25 Still retaining such infinite power
26 Yes, I liked you
27 Love everything that keeps you alive
28 Another Name for Love, Mother
29 A feast called family
30 Am I worth it?
Not thinking about time is living forever
32 The arrival of the prophet who burned the bridge to return with confidence
33 Strange World
34 Some cities share a secret love affair with us.
35 A place that is nowhere but exists
36 And orange scent
37 Actually, it was the sun that helped me
38 I don't want to turn back
39 Taming
40 Taming
41 Being Together
42 Wonders
43 Breaking up
44 Just because of sadness and fear
45 To the extent that you are conscious of the gap between your clothes and your body
46 Melancholy is the true secret of life.
47 Even if you don't necessarily imagine the end of the North Pole,
48 Yes, death is stronger than me.
49 Under the tranquil sunset
50 Lumberjacks made the sky useless
51 You are no longer there
52 Memento Mori
About the author
Original source
Detailed image
Into the book
I woke up a little after 4 o'clock.
Above the blinds, the pure golden light of the earliest sunlight, always reminiscent of Dante's angels, was falling.
I slept soundly and dreamlessly, unlike usual, and felt the blessing of rest all over my body.
My head was clear and my pulse was beating calmly.
As I lay there for a few minutes, wondering which book to pick up from the bookshelf, I felt a surge of desire to get up and go out into the early morning.
At that moment, I got up.
As I raised the blinds and opened the window, my longing grew stronger, and soon I found myself in the garden, but soon I was standing lightheartedly on the road, not caring where I was going.
--- p.18 From "George Gissing l Dawn Thoughts - 03 Morning Walk"
People who can't sleep like this create virtue out of suffering.
I hope they can endure their suffering and, if possible, heal.
But for those who carelessly boast about their health and settle for a superficial life, I beg for something different.
I hope I can experience, even just once, a night where I lie in silence, unable to sleep, and face my inner life laid bare.
--- p.38 From "Hermann Hesse l Sleepless Nights - 09 You too, please, once"
Spring permeates everywhere like a new poison gas that can penetrate all filters.
Spring is often referred to as a "miracle," a worn-out phrase that has found new life in the past five or six years.
After the winter we had to endure until recently, spring came like a miracle.
Even though it's becoming increasingly difficult to believe that spring will really come.
From 1940 onwards, I felt like this winter would last forever.
But like the toad, Persephone always comes back from the dead at the same time.
--- p.68 From "George Orwell l Thinking of Toads - 18 Spring is always like a miracle"
Autumn comes at the same time as summer.
Autumn is already here, hiding secretly in the middle of summer, but people are fooled by the scorching heat and do not know it.
If you listen carefully, you will hear insects chirping as soon as summer arrives, and if you look into the garden, you will see the bellflowers blooming.
The dragonfly is originally an autumn insect, and the persimmon tree also bears fruit all summer.
Autumn is a cunning devil.
After finishing my summer makeup, I sit in the summer laughing.
A poet with as much insight as I do could see through this.
When summer came, one of my family members was excitedly making a fuss about whether to go to the beach or the mountains, and it was pitiful to see that.
Autumn has already crept into summer.
Autumn is truly a formidable opponent.
--- p.72 From "Dazai Osamu l Ah, Autumn - 20 The Cunning Demon Called Autumn"
When I lived in Algiers, I always survived the winters well.
Because I knew that one night, on a cold, clear night in February, the almond trees in the valley of Les Conciles would be covered with white blossoms.
Every time I see those flowers, white and fragile as snow, enduring the winter rain and sea breeze, I am filled with awe.
The flowers persevered for as long as was necessary to bear fruit each year.
This is not some kind of symbol.
Symbols cannot bring happiness.
Something more serious than that is needed.
What I mean is that, when the burden of life becomes too much to bear in this land of misery-filled Europe, I return to that shining city where so much innocence still remains.
--- p.86 From "Albert Camus l The Almond Trees - 25 Still Retaining Such Infinite Power"
We were in a mountain lodge when we encountered a blizzard. It was as if a strange world had been created, and we had to carefully navigate our way as if we had never seen the place before.
Everything was new there.
The last thing that comes to mind is the wonderful glacier course, where I was sliding endlessly and endlessly through the quiet noise of the rustling powder snow, smoothly and straight, as straight as my legs could support, ankles firmly braced, body low, leaning into the speed.
It was a wonderful experience, more so than flying or anything else, and carrying a heavy rucksack and climbing long distances builds the strength to do this.
It wasn't something money could buy, nor was there a ticket to the top.
It was possible after studying all winter and building up my body all winter.
Above the blinds, the pure golden light of the earliest sunlight, always reminiscent of Dante's angels, was falling.
I slept soundly and dreamlessly, unlike usual, and felt the blessing of rest all over my body.
My head was clear and my pulse was beating calmly.
As I lay there for a few minutes, wondering which book to pick up from the bookshelf, I felt a surge of desire to get up and go out into the early morning.
At that moment, I got up.
As I raised the blinds and opened the window, my longing grew stronger, and soon I found myself in the garden, but soon I was standing lightheartedly on the road, not caring where I was going.
--- p.18 From "George Gissing l Dawn Thoughts - 03 Morning Walk"
People who can't sleep like this create virtue out of suffering.
I hope they can endure their suffering and, if possible, heal.
But for those who carelessly boast about their health and settle for a superficial life, I beg for something different.
I hope I can experience, even just once, a night where I lie in silence, unable to sleep, and face my inner life laid bare.
--- p.38 From "Hermann Hesse l Sleepless Nights - 09 You too, please, once"
Spring permeates everywhere like a new poison gas that can penetrate all filters.
Spring is often referred to as a "miracle," a worn-out phrase that has found new life in the past five or six years.
After the winter we had to endure until recently, spring came like a miracle.
Even though it's becoming increasingly difficult to believe that spring will really come.
From 1940 onwards, I felt like this winter would last forever.
But like the toad, Persephone always comes back from the dead at the same time.
--- p.68 From "George Orwell l Thinking of Toads - 18 Spring is always like a miracle"
Autumn comes at the same time as summer.
Autumn is already here, hiding secretly in the middle of summer, but people are fooled by the scorching heat and do not know it.
If you listen carefully, you will hear insects chirping as soon as summer arrives, and if you look into the garden, you will see the bellflowers blooming.
The dragonfly is originally an autumn insect, and the persimmon tree also bears fruit all summer.
Autumn is a cunning devil.
After finishing my summer makeup, I sit in the summer laughing.
A poet with as much insight as I do could see through this.
When summer came, one of my family members was excitedly making a fuss about whether to go to the beach or the mountains, and it was pitiful to see that.
Autumn has already crept into summer.
Autumn is truly a formidable opponent.
--- p.72 From "Dazai Osamu l Ah, Autumn - 20 The Cunning Demon Called Autumn"
When I lived in Algiers, I always survived the winters well.
Because I knew that one night, on a cold, clear night in February, the almond trees in the valley of Les Conciles would be covered with white blossoms.
Every time I see those flowers, white and fragile as snow, enduring the winter rain and sea breeze, I am filled with awe.
The flowers persevered for as long as was necessary to bear fruit each year.
This is not some kind of symbol.
Symbols cannot bring happiness.
Something more serious than that is needed.
What I mean is that, when the burden of life becomes too much to bear in this land of misery-filled Europe, I return to that shining city where so much innocence still remains.
--- p.86 From "Albert Camus l The Almond Trees - 25 Still Retaining Such Infinite Power"
We were in a mountain lodge when we encountered a blizzard. It was as if a strange world had been created, and we had to carefully navigate our way as if we had never seen the place before.
Everything was new there.
The last thing that comes to mind is the wonderful glacier course, where I was sliding endlessly and endlessly through the quiet noise of the rustling powder snow, smoothly and straight, as straight as my legs could support, ankles firmly braced, body low, leaning into the speed.
It was a wonderful experience, more so than flying or anything else, and carrying a heavy rucksack and climbing long distances builds the strength to do this.
It wasn't something money could buy, nor was there a ticket to the top.
It was possible after studying all winter and building up my body all winter.
--- p.110 From "Ernest Hemingway l Winter at Schruns - 33 Strange Worlds"
Publisher's Review
“The outstanding prose of world-renowned authors we have loved, love, and will love,
“As you transcribe those wonderful sentences, your life is rewritten.”
A selection of 51 outstanding prose pieces by 32 world-renowned authors spanning the Anglo-American, European, and Japanese-speaking worlds.
A rich handwritten notebook with 52 paragraphs that capture the essence of each work.
Kafka, Hesse, Wolf, Hemingway, Soseki, Osamu—couldn't we encounter the works of these authors, each one a world literary history in its own right, transcending their respective countries and cultural spheres? Prose that holds the key to unlocking the mysteries of their intimate lives and their literature? Kkotpinun Books' "Night and Day Edition for Life's Strollers" fulfills this desire with an unprecedentedly rich selection of world classic prose. Divided into two volumes, "Night Edition" and "Day Edition," it contains 51 essays by 32 world-renowned authors spanning the Anglo-American, European, and Japanese spheres.
I hope you can keep it close by and read it anytime, anywhere, whether while traveling or at your bedside, and fully enjoy the pleasure of walking alongside the masters who have walked the path of life firsthand.
'Night and Day Edition 3 for the Life Walker' 『Notes on Sentences of a Peaceful Night and a Shining Face』 by F.
It contains 52 passages carefully selected from 51 prose pieces by Scott Fitzgerald, Natsume Soseki, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Niimi Nankichi, Dazai Osamu, Terada Torahiko, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Walzer, Max Beerbohm, Kenji Miyazawa, Virginia Woolf, Beatrix Potter, Stuart White, Shimazaki Dawson, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Aldo Leopold, Albert Camus, Alphonse Daudet, Ernest Hemingway, Orikuchi Shinobu, Oscar Wilde, William Faulkner, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Gissing, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Karel Capek, Paul Bourget, Fernando Pessoa, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, and Henry David Thoreau.
Each paragraph is the essence of each work, carefully selected by translators who understand the original text more deeply than anyone else and editors who have read the translated manuscript more than six times.
As you read and transcribe the 52 paragraphs that bring back the peaceful moonlit night and the bright day, you will soon find yourself enjoying the pleasure of drawing the entire work.
The ecstatic experience of becoming another life walker walking alongside the great life walkers.
From death at night to love during the day, 12 themes and 52 paragraphs are included.
A new experience of comparing and transcribing the serious thoughts and perspectives on life of world-renowned authors.
The Flowering Book prose collection, "Night and Day Edition for Life's Walkers," is a new book composed of prose by world-renowned authors we have loved, love, and will love, divided into two time and space: night and day.
Looking at night and day from an abstract perspective, beyond the simple division of time, they can be said to be symbolic concepts that contain various themes that permeate our lives throughout our lives, according to their temperature and light and shade.
This is why it is both time and space, and space and time.
And in that space and time, on one hand, things like insomnia, death, walking, writing, and solitude can be contained, and on the other hand, things like space, seasons, travel, love, and companionship.
These are themes that permeate our lives, with different temperatures and shades of light and shade.
The night edition, "Why Didn't I Take a Walk in the Moonlight for a While," is divided into five themes: insomnia, death, walking, writing, and solitude. The day edition, "The Light is Behind Your Back," is divided into five themes: space, season, travel, love, and companionship, and contains works by world-renowned authors.
'Night and Day Edition 3 for Life Walkers' 『Notes on Sentences of Peaceful Nights and Shining Days』 is a reorganization of 12 themes in total, with memories and recollections added to these 10 themes, and each of these themes contains 52 paragraphs selected from works on walks, love, companionship, death or insomnia, space, writing, seasons, memories, travel, recollection, and solitude.
Each of these paragraphs also has a striking title that encapsulates the gist of the paragraph and the theme of the work it contains.
By transcribing paragraphs from each topic, using this title as a guidepost to bring you closer and more deeply into the hearts of the great walkers of life, you will have a new experience of comparing and feeling the vastly different perspectives on life and the serious thoughts of each writer contained within them.
A notebook filled with the creative experience of writing a "Life Walk of the Month" once a month, along with its secret joys.
The 52 paragraphs in 'Night and Day Edition 3 for Life Walkers' 『Notebook of Sentences from Peaceful Nights and Shining Days』 represent the 52 weeks of the year, and the 12 topics into which these 52 paragraphs are divided represent the 12 months of the year.
The reason there are 4 or 5 paragraphs in 12 topics is because each topic covers one month of time.
After transcribing four or five pieces, one per week, for a month, you will encounter 'This Month's Life Walk', which contains a deep, broad, and brilliant sentence from one of the authors you transcribed, along with a question related to that month's topic.
For example, these sentences and questions:
“Beauty is everywhere to those who can see it.” - Henry David Thoreau
What was it that suddenly made the noise of the world stop and give your mind a rest?
These are the sentences and questions you can find in 'This Month's Life Walk' at the end of the first month and first topic.
Through these sentences and questions, we will be able to experience the secret joy of creation, going beyond simple transcription and writing down our own journey through life, once a month.
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne
What was your longest day this year? Is the joy of that day still there? Has the pain of that day healed?
After twelve delights, by the time we come across the "Life Walk of the Year," filled with sentences and questions like these, we may all have become creators.
A faithful translation that allows you to encounter the author and his work more closely, more vividly, and more completely.
The joy of mortal combat, with the added bonus of an unexpectedly wonderful gift.
In planning the 'Night and Day Edition for Life Walkers', Kkotpin Books sought out young translators, especially those with experience in literary research or publishing.
It was because it would be possible to more faithfully translate the original text and faithfully solve the mysteries hidden in the original text.
First of all, for the sake of consistency in the length of the paragraphs or ease of conveying the content, the Blooming Book started by adjusting the author's writing style and the rhythm of the paragraphs in the original text by arbitrarily splitting long paragraphs, and then, putting aside the author's intention and trying to convey it more easily, by inserting words that were not in the original text or omitting words that were in the original text, rather than a translation that erases the differences in the original language to match the usage of the Korean language, we requested a translation that faithfully conveys the author's writing style and rhythm, accurate intention, and the differences in the original language more than any other translation by fully preserving even the commas.
Fortunately, three young translators, researchers, and publishers readily agreed to this request.
All 52 paragraphs in the "Notebook of Sentences from Peaceful Nights and Shining Days" edition 3 for those who walk through life are an unexpectedly wonderful gift from three translators who meticulously, yet joyfully, translated the work that was bound to take a very long time and was bound to be even more difficult.
Because as you transcribe, you will have the ecstatic experience of meeting the author and the work more closely, more vividly, and more completely.
Flowering Books' "Night and Day Edition for Life's Walkers" is a two-volume collection of prose by writers who have left a huge mark on world literature.
Day and night are scientific divisions that divide the time of day in half, but they are also emotional divisions that divide various topics that constitute, govern, guide, and permeate our lives according to their temperature and light and dark.
Insomnia, loneliness, loss, and death are seen as the realm of the night, while nature, love, travel, family, and companionship are seen as the realm of the day.
And these two divided times and two themes, like light and shadow, like the front and back of a coin, are originally a pair, so they metaphorically represent life that cannot exist as a cross-section, and the space-time in which that life takes place.
As we walk the long and short path called life, light and darkness alternately illuminate and obscure the path.
It is a path worth walking, for there is no eternal day or eternal night.
And good literature is always a great companion along the way.
The sentences left behind by writers who passed away long ago contain traces of serious thought between every line, and their perspectives on life are alive and vibrant.
I hope that each reader will continue their own journey through life, resonating with the thoughts and gaze that are sometimes piercingly clear and sometimes as warm as the spring sunshine, and that their time will be filled with fulfillment.
- From the Translator's Note
“As you transcribe those wonderful sentences, your life is rewritten.”
A selection of 51 outstanding prose pieces by 32 world-renowned authors spanning the Anglo-American, European, and Japanese-speaking worlds.
A rich handwritten notebook with 52 paragraphs that capture the essence of each work.
Kafka, Hesse, Wolf, Hemingway, Soseki, Osamu—couldn't we encounter the works of these authors, each one a world literary history in its own right, transcending their respective countries and cultural spheres? Prose that holds the key to unlocking the mysteries of their intimate lives and their literature? Kkotpinun Books' "Night and Day Edition for Life's Strollers" fulfills this desire with an unprecedentedly rich selection of world classic prose. Divided into two volumes, "Night Edition" and "Day Edition," it contains 51 essays by 32 world-renowned authors spanning the Anglo-American, European, and Japanese spheres.
I hope you can keep it close by and read it anytime, anywhere, whether while traveling or at your bedside, and fully enjoy the pleasure of walking alongside the masters who have walked the path of life firsthand.
'Night and Day Edition 3 for the Life Walker' 『Notes on Sentences of a Peaceful Night and a Shining Face』 by F.
It contains 52 passages carefully selected from 51 prose pieces by Scott Fitzgerald, Natsume Soseki, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Niimi Nankichi, Dazai Osamu, Terada Torahiko, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Walzer, Max Beerbohm, Kenji Miyazawa, Virginia Woolf, Beatrix Potter, Stuart White, Shimazaki Dawson, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Aldo Leopold, Albert Camus, Alphonse Daudet, Ernest Hemingway, Orikuchi Shinobu, Oscar Wilde, William Faulkner, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Gissing, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Karel Capek, Paul Bourget, Fernando Pessoa, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse, and Henry David Thoreau.
Each paragraph is the essence of each work, carefully selected by translators who understand the original text more deeply than anyone else and editors who have read the translated manuscript more than six times.
As you read and transcribe the 52 paragraphs that bring back the peaceful moonlit night and the bright day, you will soon find yourself enjoying the pleasure of drawing the entire work.
The ecstatic experience of becoming another life walker walking alongside the great life walkers.
From death at night to love during the day, 12 themes and 52 paragraphs are included.
A new experience of comparing and transcribing the serious thoughts and perspectives on life of world-renowned authors.
The Flowering Book prose collection, "Night and Day Edition for Life's Walkers," is a new book composed of prose by world-renowned authors we have loved, love, and will love, divided into two time and space: night and day.
Looking at night and day from an abstract perspective, beyond the simple division of time, they can be said to be symbolic concepts that contain various themes that permeate our lives throughout our lives, according to their temperature and light and shade.
This is why it is both time and space, and space and time.
And in that space and time, on one hand, things like insomnia, death, walking, writing, and solitude can be contained, and on the other hand, things like space, seasons, travel, love, and companionship.
These are themes that permeate our lives, with different temperatures and shades of light and shade.
The night edition, "Why Didn't I Take a Walk in the Moonlight for a While," is divided into five themes: insomnia, death, walking, writing, and solitude. The day edition, "The Light is Behind Your Back," is divided into five themes: space, season, travel, love, and companionship, and contains works by world-renowned authors.
'Night and Day Edition 3 for Life Walkers' 『Notes on Sentences of Peaceful Nights and Shining Days』 is a reorganization of 12 themes in total, with memories and recollections added to these 10 themes, and each of these themes contains 52 paragraphs selected from works on walks, love, companionship, death or insomnia, space, writing, seasons, memories, travel, recollection, and solitude.
Each of these paragraphs also has a striking title that encapsulates the gist of the paragraph and the theme of the work it contains.
By transcribing paragraphs from each topic, using this title as a guidepost to bring you closer and more deeply into the hearts of the great walkers of life, you will have a new experience of comparing and feeling the vastly different perspectives on life and the serious thoughts of each writer contained within them.
A notebook filled with the creative experience of writing a "Life Walk of the Month" once a month, along with its secret joys.
The 52 paragraphs in 'Night and Day Edition 3 for Life Walkers' 『Notebook of Sentences from Peaceful Nights and Shining Days』 represent the 52 weeks of the year, and the 12 topics into which these 52 paragraphs are divided represent the 12 months of the year.
The reason there are 4 or 5 paragraphs in 12 topics is because each topic covers one month of time.
After transcribing four or five pieces, one per week, for a month, you will encounter 'This Month's Life Walk', which contains a deep, broad, and brilliant sentence from one of the authors you transcribed, along with a question related to that month's topic.
For example, these sentences and questions:
“Beauty is everywhere to those who can see it.” - Henry David Thoreau
What was it that suddenly made the noise of the world stop and give your mind a rest?
These are the sentences and questions you can find in 'This Month's Life Walk' at the end of the first month and first topic.
Through these sentences and questions, we will be able to experience the secret joy of creation, going beyond simple transcription and writing down our own journey through life, once a month.
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne
What was your longest day this year? Is the joy of that day still there? Has the pain of that day healed?
After twelve delights, by the time we come across the "Life Walk of the Year," filled with sentences and questions like these, we may all have become creators.
A faithful translation that allows you to encounter the author and his work more closely, more vividly, and more completely.
The joy of mortal combat, with the added bonus of an unexpectedly wonderful gift.
In planning the 'Night and Day Edition for Life Walkers', Kkotpin Books sought out young translators, especially those with experience in literary research or publishing.
It was because it would be possible to more faithfully translate the original text and faithfully solve the mysteries hidden in the original text.
First of all, for the sake of consistency in the length of the paragraphs or ease of conveying the content, the Blooming Book started by adjusting the author's writing style and the rhythm of the paragraphs in the original text by arbitrarily splitting long paragraphs, and then, putting aside the author's intention and trying to convey it more easily, by inserting words that were not in the original text or omitting words that were in the original text, rather than a translation that erases the differences in the original language to match the usage of the Korean language, we requested a translation that faithfully conveys the author's writing style and rhythm, accurate intention, and the differences in the original language more than any other translation by fully preserving even the commas.
Fortunately, three young translators, researchers, and publishers readily agreed to this request.
All 52 paragraphs in the "Notebook of Sentences from Peaceful Nights and Shining Days" edition 3 for those who walk through life are an unexpectedly wonderful gift from three translators who meticulously, yet joyfully, translated the work that was bound to take a very long time and was bound to be even more difficult.
Because as you transcribe, you will have the ecstatic experience of meeting the author and the work more closely, more vividly, and more completely.
Flowering Books' "Night and Day Edition for Life's Walkers" is a two-volume collection of prose by writers who have left a huge mark on world literature.
Day and night are scientific divisions that divide the time of day in half, but they are also emotional divisions that divide various topics that constitute, govern, guide, and permeate our lives according to their temperature and light and dark.
Insomnia, loneliness, loss, and death are seen as the realm of the night, while nature, love, travel, family, and companionship are seen as the realm of the day.
And these two divided times and two themes, like light and shadow, like the front and back of a coin, are originally a pair, so they metaphorically represent life that cannot exist as a cross-section, and the space-time in which that life takes place.
As we walk the long and short path called life, light and darkness alternately illuminate and obscure the path.
It is a path worth walking, for there is no eternal day or eternal night.
And good literature is always a great companion along the way.
The sentences left behind by writers who passed away long ago contain traces of serious thought between every line, and their perspectives on life are alive and vibrant.
I hope that each reader will continue their own journey through life, resonating with the thoughts and gaze that are sometimes piercingly clear and sometimes as warm as the spring sunshine, and that their time will be filled with fulfillment.
- From the Translator's Note
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: June 30, 2025
- Format: Hardcover book binding method guide
- Page count, weight, size: 188 pages | 358g | 122*188*17mm
- ISBN13: 9791199228214
- ISBN10: 1199228214
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