Vaseline Buddha

By Jung Young MoonTranslated from the Korean by Yewon Jung A tour-de-force in automatic writing from South Korea's eccentric, award-winning contemporary master delves into subconscious worlds blending reality and imagination. Publication Date: July 5, 2016 Paperback: 9781941920343eBook: 9781941920350 Description "If someone in the future asks in frustration, 'What has Korean literature been up to?' we can quietly hand them Vaseline Buddha." —Pak Mingyu A tragicomic odyssey told through free association scrubs the depths of the human psyche to achieve a higher level of consciousness equal to Zen meditation. The story opens when our sleepless narrator thwarts a would-be thief outside his moonlit window, then delves into his subconscious imagination to explore a variety of geographical and mental locations—real, unreal, surreal—to explore the very nature of reality. Biographical Note Jung Young Moon was born in Hamyang, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, in 1965. He graduated from S