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Reading 'Gone with the Wind' in Pyongyang

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

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Reading 'Gone with the Wind' in Pyongyang
Oct 24th 2012, 06:33

The former black marketeer has read it. So has the beautiful young librarian, and the aging philosophy professor who has spent his life teaching the ruling doctrine of this isolated outpost of totalitarian socialism. At times it seems as if everyone in Pyongyang, a city full of monuments to its own mythology, has read the book. In it they found a tortured love story, or a parable of bourgeois decline. Many found heroes. They lost themselves in the story of a nation divided by war, its defeated cities reduced to smolder and ruins, its humbled aristocrats reduced to starvation. The book is "Gone With the Wind." To come across Margaret Mitchell's 1936 Civil War epic in North Korea is to stumble...

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