Seven Years of Night
The story of a man who could not stop the race to ruin due to a momentary mistake
March 20, 2022
Seven Years of Night
Jeong You-jeong
Eunhaengnamu
2016-05-30
9788956604992
Review
Reading Jeong You-jeong's works is suffocating.
The depiction of the characters' situations and their emotions is so vivid that it's difficult to read.
The terrible mistake of one night by a character named
It seems that characters with psychopathic tendencies appear every time in the author's works.
In this work as well, that character is indeed quite tenacious.
This work seems to be a story about two tragic versions of fatherly love. A tragic fatherly love that plunged his son into hell through a momentary mistake but tries to save him by sacrificing himself at the last moment.
The other is a twisted and destructive fatherly love that regards his daughter as a possession and uses his dead daughter as a tool for his own revenge. The stark contrast between these two fathers seems to throw a heavy question:
The depiction of the characters' situations and their emotions is so vivid that it's difficult to read.
The terrible mistake of one night by a character named
Choi Hyeon-su becomes the seed of all tragedy.It seems that characters with psychopathic tendencies appear every time in the author's works.
In this work as well, that character is indeed quite tenacious.
This work seems to be a story about two tragic versions of fatherly love. A tragic fatherly love that plunged his son into hell through a momentary mistake but tries to save him by sacrificing himself at the last moment.
The other is a twisted and destructive fatherly love that regards his daughter as a possession and uses his dead daughter as a tool for his own revenge. The stark contrast between these two fathers seems to throw a heavy question:
What is true love?