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Anyonw know whether there is an English translation of 금수회의록 online or in print? If so, what is the English title? (Author is 안국선)

I don't find it in Google books, but I do find a few online editions of the Korean. Also not in worldcat (except the original) nor in Amazon nor in bookfinder.

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    Hmm, not sure why all the comments are gone, but maybe we should revert the question title because it seems OP was asking for the translation of the novel itself?
    – jick
    Feb 22, 2018 at 17:35
  • @jick I do understand that the asker wants to find an English translation of the novel - but while "what is the English translation of this book's title" seems a fair enough question for this site, I would think that "is there an English translation of this book" possibly crosses the line to not really being a question about the Korean language. I know that sounds like splitting hairs, but hopefully by answering the question as worded we'd provide the necessary info anyway.
    – Нет войне
    Feb 22, 2018 at 21:40
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    While I don't know of an English translation, the title 금수회의록 is rendered in Hanja as 禽獸會議錄, and if you're looking for a rough translation of this it means Records/diaries (록, 錄) of [a/the] meeting/s (회의, 會議) of/between [the] birds and beasts (금수, 禽獸).. Birds and beasts is a synonym of bestial or inhuman, if that helps.
    – dROOOze
    Feb 23, 2018 at 8:34
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    If you Google that translation, you'll get various references by authors who have translated it as: Record of the Conference of Birds and Beasts, Notes from the Meeting of the Birds and Beasts, though I don't see any clues of an English translation of the entire text.
    – dROOOze
    Feb 23, 2018 at 8:44
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    I don’t think there is an actual translation for that. You can simply say Geum-su-Hue-I-Lok.
    – Me myself and I
    Mar 2, 2018 at 19:29

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According to Understanding Korean Literature by Hung-Gyu Kim, Robert Fouser, it means "Minutes From a Meeting of Animals". Unfortunately, I cannot find a translated version of the book.

The Korean version is 금수회의록.

And while I was searching I found a news article about this novel: “신소설 대표작 ‘금수회의록’은 日소설 번안 작품”. It is an adapted story, the original story or book is from Japan.

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