The Greenhouse
NovellaPark Jung-hyun
A man living through the time that comes after failure.
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Askew. Aslant.
Stories read again from the oblique.
Oblique is an independent fiction press publishing books and the literary magazine O/D.
NEW RELEASE · Oblique’s fourth book
The Greenhouse
A novel by Park Jung-hyun
“How far can a human being submit?”
Cut from his dream of becoming a baseball player and left by the woman he loved, Dong-su believes his life is over too. Then a program for people who have failed—the Greenhouse—comes to him. There is only one condition: lie down on the soil and give up your body heat so the plants can grow.
A place where you don’t have to say much, or prove anything. There, for the first time, Dong-su feels at peace. But is it really only plants that grow here?
BOOKS
Books
Novels and story collections published by Oblique. Click a cover to read about the book.
Drowning Practice
NovellaPark Jung-hyun
A man who practices drowning to refuse life, and a woman who will not let that life go.
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Hollow
Short storiesPark Jung-hyun
How should we live in a world without truth or essence? Eight short stories.
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BORDERLESS EXISTENCE
Stories · Revised ed.Park Jung-hyun
Neither poetry nor fiction, neither drama nor fairy tale: fifteen stories standing on the border.
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O/D
OBLIQUE DISCOURSE DIGEST
Oblique’s literary fiction magazine, each issue gathered around a single theme.
THE SECOND ISSUE · OCT 2026
UNDERDOG
Issue 2: ‘Underdog’
CONTENTS
- Special! The Out-of-PrintLim Jae-hoon
- FallingChoi Jun-hyuk
- Bad HopYang Jun-mo
- The Praying GodPark Jung-hyun
- Afterimage_01Choi Noah
ALL ISSUES
THE INAUGURAL ISSUE · SEPT 2026
IRONY
Inaugural issue: ‘Irony’
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THE SECOND ISSUE · OCT 2026
UNDERDOG
Issue 2: ‘Underdog’
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THE THIRD ISSUE
COMING SOON
Issue 3 in the works
OBLIQUE REBOOTCOMING SOON
DOGMA 27DOGMA 27
For 2027, Oblique is being reborn. Its first publication: the experimental book DOGMA 27.
A homage to the spirit of artistic ‘independence’ championed by the Danish film movement Dogma 95: four fictions and one essay driven by a will to independence and innovation.
117 × 190 mm · 44 pp. · spiral bound · Tumblbug exclusive
ABOUT
Cutting across the world
at an oblique angle
Oblique rejects linear narrative and the single reading, and always looks at the world from an angle. With a rebellious spirit we take apart worn-out grammars and carve out meaning by post-structural means. We pursue stories bound by no form, and thinking that bows to no rule.
Late 2026, and then 2027: Oblique is reborn with DOGMA 27.
Publisher · Author
Park Jung-hyun
Born 2004 · Founder of the one-person press Oblique
Books
- BORDERLESS EXISTENCE
- Hollow
- Drowning Practice
- The Greenhouse
- DOGMA 27
About
After two years as a film critic, he crossed over to fiction.
He believes that where criticism conveys ideology directly, fiction conveys it indirectly—and he writes the stories he wants to tell the world.
4Books
2O/D issues
2025Founded January 31
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