Pyongyang, north Korea (AP) -- former black market reading. Therefore, it is young and beautiful librarian, aging philosophy professor has spent his life, teaching theory of ruling the totalitarian socialist the isolated outpost. Sometimes, it seems everyone in Pyongyang, a city monuments own myth, reading this book.
In this inside, they found a on the gridiron love story, or a parable asset class down. Many people believe that hero. They lost their own stories, divided by war country, its beat city reduce to smoke the ruins, it reduce hunger humble noble.
This book is "gone with the wind".
Meet Margaret Mitchell's 1936 in north Korea the civil war epic, it is the touchstone of American culture, in the most unlikely places could not stumble.
What is before the civil war plantation life and north Korea, three generations of rulers - grandfather, father and young son JinZhengYun - be worship know everything? What attraction scarlett's brownstone ruthless holder in the past few years a dire famine?
But in here, in a country is thought to have the world's most strict censorship net, a local literary culture is mainly inherited from the Stalin, the government has published a novel, eager to the slave owners in the South America day.
Possible explanation is in the Mitchell's own words.
"They know war and terrorism, hunger, see relatives died before their time," Mitchell said the war from the south. "They have hungry, ragged, live in the Wolf. They from the ruins rebuilt wealth".
In "gone with the wind", the koreans found their own history and opinion photograph echo the United States: bloody civil war nearly a century, in addition to two cities - Atlanta and Pyongyang - against U.S. troops razed to the ground, two kinds of culture or celebrate their stand up to the American way. If north Korea haven't found wealth, they didn't give up.
"Only the strong survive in north Korea, said:" the disposable use TV, spent his life in Pyongyang, but eventually escaped South Korea's black market, the former salesman. "This is the most striking news novels."
Maybe ratio what all important, however, north Korea found everywhere readers ask good novel: escape and comfortable. In the forms of entertainment, a police state ruthless edge, lets the entire population of small countries, Mitchell told (if ruthless soap water) story, lost love, a person of extraordinary powers curtilage life, war and honor become an important refuge.
Ambitious young north Korean women, rooted in sex discrimination, and puts forward the rise of scarlett, from the ruins in find inspiration. A man with her, swashbuckling love, rhett butler muscle. In the winter heat lack, or political struggle, or go to hell marriage daily pain and struggle may disappear in the story of Mitchell
It also moved to officialdom life. The movie, banned the general public, but beloved former dictator and movie fan, Kim jong il, sometimes used in the English language courses, to develop elite government officials. North Korea negotiators meeting with the American envoy reference it occasionally, a reply to America's criticism and quotation (perfectionist might notice a little deviation of books and movies) : "frankly, scarlett, I don't give a damn."
In this make the capital city, ask around a piece of enclave north Korea degree of the elite, almost everyone some things what to say.
"Scarlett is a strong woman," said Perilla Mi, a more than 20 years old guide the main library in Pyongyang, the people's great learning of the family, the size of the house guest room labyrinth lit stuttering fluorescent lamp light there mildewy smell often hang serious.
In a country long been frozen in the Soviet union dowdiness style of women's fashion, men gaze of white with vigorous strides in her tight skirt, high-heeled shoes garrulous concrete floor through the library. "Scarlett, rhett and ASHLEY between triangle, I don't like this," she said.
Game, scarlett learn plantation life of vortex - man's toys, hide her wisdom, dangled her sexuality - strengthen America's worst stereotypes.
"I must be faithful to my people, not thinking of another man," white said.
In the study hall place, such as fostering guide dealing with foreigners, and familiar sliding propaganda to dialogue. White missed her chance.
"In my country," she said, according to the lift button, "woman is more important relationship."
"Gone with the wind" is in the modern history of one of the most popular novels, and in the southern United States, Mitchell vision lost nobles often push of the complexity of the civil war history is still a talisman. It still selling 50000 copies or so, in the world each year, according to its issue, Mr Kerry's cloth.
When it is released, however, it sold 1 million copies. This is from Britain to Nazi German empire Japan, then occupied the whole Korean peninsula.
This book is Japan may bring South Korea in the 1930 s, is seen from here basically gone 1950-1953 Korean war ended. At the appointed time, peninsula was firmly division, many cities were shattered, the founder of the north Korea, Kim il sung, is to establish a stalinism police state.
When the government suddenly ordered translate it and release in the 1990 s, when north Korea's all important disappeared Soviet support and famine is like concealed, it like a literature through the Pyongyang storm swept across. This book scene here have long dominated the detective stories and love novel apart severe propaganda, and classic foreign novels, such as "Quixote".
"There is a period of time, you can't have a conversation don't say" gone with the wind ", "said Pyongyang before television traders, the condition of his speech, he cannot determine, worry to relatives are still living in the north repercussions.
Why it is published, but it is not clear.
Although Washington and Pyongyang is in technology or in the war, and the U.S. government's hatred is a constant in north Korea's propaganda, has been the United States culture in the popular here quietly. Everything from Mark Twain's short novel piracy Schwarzenegger movie is north Korea's fans.
Some people think, from Korea to the United States as a symbol of peace selling decided to publish the meaning of "gone with the wind", the two countries have argument for years in the flat




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