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BORDERLESS EXISTENCE

BORDERLESS EXISTENCE

Selected stories by Park Jung-hyunRevised edition

“This discomfort is strangely beautiful.”

— A reader’s review

Neither poetry nor fiction, neither drama nor fairy tale: fifteen stories standing on the border. What if the ideas we have believed and the rules we have kept—every structure—collapsed in a single moment? This book asks you: do you believe in structure?

A revised edition with two new stories

Contents

  1. 0. Opening: Pithos
  2. Snail
  3. Drowning Practice
  4. Hide-and-Seek
  5. Hair
  6. Roll the Dice
  7. The Perfect Plum Tree
  8. With Whom the Night
  9. Host
  10. Siamese
  11. Tanning
  12. Burst of Laughter
  13. The Last Meal
  14. Autopsy
  15. Intermission
  16. Iho and Iho
  17. ∞ Afterword: BORDERLESS EXISTENCE
Published
2026.01.31
Format · Pages
117 × 191 mm · 232 pp.
Price
₩14,000
ISBN
9791199132733
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ABOUT THE BOOK

Detail image 1 for BORDERLESS EXISTENCE (in Korean) — an upside-down city and falling people, asking ‘What if every structure collapsed at once?’ and ‘Do you believe in structure?’ Detail image 2 for BORDERLESS EXISTENCE (in Korean) — the reader review ‘This discomfort is strangely beautiful,’ the revised edition, and the stories ‘Siamese’ and ‘Tanning’