Demon University
Korean Title: 악마대학교
Author: Dong Sik Kim
Publisher: Modern Literature
ISBN: 9791167903013
136page /104* 182mm
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About This Book
Book Introduction
The seventh book in the "Modern Literature Pin Genre" series, featuring the most modern and cutting-edge writers of contemporary Korean literature, has been published! The first novella by Kim Dong-sik, author of *The Gray Man*,
which captivated 300,000 readers
! “I have a feeling. A feeling that I will use the existence of the ‘devil’ endlessly
throughout my entire writing career . If so, wouldn’t that be considered a pact with the devil?” _Kim Dong-sik (Novelist) *Devil University* by Kim Dong-sik, the seventh book in the "Modern Literature Pin Genre" series, which features the most modern and cutting-edge writers of contemporary Korean literature, has been published. *Devil University*, an adaptation of the work published in the September 2024 issue of *Modern Literature*, is the first novella by Kim Dong-sik, who captivated 300,000 readers and sparked a ‘ultra-short story’ boom with *The Gray Man*. The author, who has been praised for jokes that “heavyly pound on our common sense” (pop culture critic Kim Bong-seok), “overwhelming imagination that transcends genres” (film director Ahn Guk-jin), and “a sensory shock that makes us doubt what we believed and see what we did not want to see”—much like solving a “Rubikk Cube made of the facets of human nature” (Jung Se-rang)—depicts in this new work the experiment of three college student devils researching “methods to make humans miserable” using the keywords of love, money, and eternal life. In a time when people more devilish than devils abound, the author presents the paradox that in order to destroy humanity, the devil must actually “become like a human” (Park In-seong), questioning whether the “humanity” we have affirmed until now might have been overvalued. Over the past seven years, during which he has published more than 1,000 novels since his debut and continued his exploration of human nature, that reflection has deepened to the point of becoming a novella in *Devil University*. Along with the author's remark that he had a premonition while writing this work that he would write more stories about the existence of "devils," this foreshadows the expansion of the "Kim Dong-sik World."
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