Roman Kim's The Notebook that was found in Sunch'ŏn as a representative of Cold War Fiction

Abstract

Roman Kim (1899-1967) was a Soviet Korean writer, Orientalist and counterintelligence officer, well-

-known in the 1950s and 1960s Eastern Europe as the author of political and spy novels such as The

Girl from Hiroshima (1954), The Cobra under the Pillow (1962), The School of Phantoms (1965). This paper analyzes his famous novel The Notebook Found in Sunch'on (1951), its authenticity and message, not from the point of view of its literariness, but in the context of the 1950s. In this book Roman Kim openly accused Americans and Japanese that by the Korean conflict they tried to realize the "first of their ABC plan" leading eventually to World War III

Keywords

• Cold War Fiction
• Roman Kim
• The Notebook Found in Sun’chon