On Farewell Party

9 reviews for FAREWELL PARTY – Joon Kim

4 out of 5 Jung Kyu Kim, ex-professor – 31 January 2022 Dr. Kim, concentrating on the flamenco, deep songs of the cave of the heart, where ‘pain taps out its rhythm and sorrow’. expressed not the only sensibility of modern art but also his anti-government and political freedom in his newly-published Farewell Party, In the book, he let the romantic passion and classical restraint, with the former being stronger.

4 out of 5 Chegal Sun, artist – 9 February 2022 It was strange and impressive to see an old man in his late 70s saying goodbye to his 20-year-old grandmother who was buried there in front of a grave next to an oak tree on a high mountain.//

4 out of 5 MyungHo Rho, English teacher – 11 February 2022 The monologue the aged whispers is sad but romantic! I love it: The aged man then has a farewell party with his friends at a cafe in ChangDong, the old downtown of Masan, where he lives. To a friend of them, he whispered in a low voice as below: “from now on, I wish I could face the rest of my life like men of an American Indian tribe! When they are young, they run through the plains, ‘with both eyes that are stable horizontally.’ And when they get old, they go into the woods alone to return in silence to the earth where their lives were initially part of it!”

5 out of 5 Laurena M – 15 March 2022 Dear Joon! I am so enjoying your book and for me, this is your finest work. I love it!!!! Just love it. I am very happy to hear you have a bit of peace from your election. I know the feeling!! Mil abrazos, Laurena

4 out of 5 Joon Kim – 31 May 2022 *The author himself said: On Farewell Party In this novel, the impact of the corona pandemic on the author is well exposed. The book as a whole is pessimistic. The old man, the main character, expresses how his psychology goes under the corona pandemic situation. That is, he would be infected with Corona pandemic and die of it, So, in preparation for when he would be infected with Corona Pandemic and die of it, he writes down what he is doing including what he has done as his family obligation. His son’s family lives far away in the United States, and especially he wants his loving grandson to read this book. He worries that his grandson would not read Korean word or writing, so he write it in English.. And another thing as its motive Have you ever heard the story of 70-year-old children mourning the death of their 30-year-old young father? His father was once a mountain Cerfa (guide) in the mountainous regions of Himalayas. He disappeared into the crevasses of the high mountains in a landslide. Then, due to the movement of glaciers, he was found frozen 50 years later. The old children were now still burying the young father’s body. In the Himalayas, such accidents are not uncommon. This story reminded me of my grandmother. She died at the age of 20, leaving behind a one-year-old baby son. For more than 65 years, I have been visiting the grave of my grandmother who died 20-year-old; and is now buried high in the mountains.. Personally I have made it a duty to make yearly visit to the tomb on the high slope once a year for 65 years. When I was a boy, I followed my father to the tomb by walk far from my house One day I come up to the tomb and bid farewell to it, because I am too old and too weak. Strangely, Physical time seems to stop flowing in the high mountains. As you know, time flows at a physically normal speed on the flat ground, An old man who is over his mid-70s is bidding good-bye in front of the grave of his 20-year-old grandmother in this deep mountain. Seen from a distance, it is a curious landscape. And the next he performs a farewell ritual there, with two musicians accompanied. They played Daekumsanjo, a piece of traditional Korean music, and he said his last goodbye to her there. Now she is buried deep in his heart.

4 out of 5 Joon Kim – 31 May 2022 The author said: At the Sonoconcre TV interview on Farewell Party, what I should have said is as follows; Flamenco is the means through which man reaches God without the intervention of saints or angels (Luis Antonio DE VEGA): Deep song is…. truly deep, deeper than the wells and oceans of the world… It comes from the first sob and the first kiss(Garcia Lorca)

4 out of 5 Joon Kim – 2 June 2022 On Farewell Party In this novel, the impact of the corona pandemic on the author is well exposed. The book as a whole is a little lonely. The old man, the main character, expresses how his psychology goes under the corona pandemic situation. That is, he would be infected with the corona pandemic and die of it, So, In a sense, this creative non-fiction is written in preparation for when he would be infected with Corona Pandemic and die of it, he writes down what he is doing including what he has done as his obligation for his big family. His son’s family lives far away in the United States, and especially he wants his grandson in the future to read what he has written. Then, he worries that his grandson may not read books in Korean, The boy is now a preparatory middle school student, and he talks with his parents in Korean at home, but at school he learns everything, reading and writing in English. Therefore, it is obvious that he may not be able to read books in Korean. He longs for the grandson to grow up to read his autobiographical novels in English and to empathize with how his grandfather has lived. He wants his grandchildren far from where he lives someday to read his books and empathize with his family’s history through the books he has written. Above all, he wants his grandson in the United States to remember and recall himself after his death.

5 out of 5 ex-professor Jung Kyu Kim – 9 June 2022 On Farewell Party. Is it your last farewell to your grandmother who lies buried in the tomb? Or is it the last meeting announcing your leaving for the unknown world? Is this the author’s last work? farewell, death. Burial….. Goodbye to ancestors and a prayer or a will? The continuation of the family, the evolution of history! Does this work reveal the passion of old age? Life in old age is not like a scarecrow!

4 out of 5 Joon Kim – 11 June 2022 A Chinese writer named Gao Sing Xen said: “Talking to myself is the beginning of literature. Communication with the world comes next. If a person puts his (or her) thoughts and feelings into a language, writes them in a book, and expresses them in writing, it is the beginning of literature. You can’t expect any benefit from that. You can only be rewarded comfort and pleasure in the process of writing.” I express my personal thought and experience as if I were talking to myself, in Farewell Party as in another book, Landscapes Invisible

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