The Cloud Dream of the Nine

The novel by Kim Man-jung, «The Cloud Dream of the Nine», created in the late 17th century, remained a beloved book in Korea for a long time. For the author, a scion of an aristocratic family, the virtue of filial piety was extraordinarily important, and he wrote this magical novel to comfort his widowed mother, whom he had to leave when he went into exile due to political upheaval.
«The Cloud Dream of the Nine» encompasses everything that can please or amuse a woman—exciting adventures, romantic passions, magical transformations, vaudevillian cross-dressing—and all this is framed in a decorous religious-philosophical context.
Life is a dream, and in a dream, anything is possible!