Mit we współczesnej literaturze koreańskiej: Memil kkot p’il muryŏp (Gdy dojrzewa gryka) Yi Hyo-sŏka (1907-1942)

The main topic of this article is the interpretation of the Korean short story Memil kkot p’il muryŏp (When the Buckweat Blooms, 1936) written by Yi Hyo-sŏk (1907-1942). He made his debut in the middle of the 1920s and for the next few years created many short stores focusing on social problems and human sexual desire shown as a sign of corruption of the modern society. At the beginning of the 1930s Yi Hyo-sŏk left the capital city and moved to the countryside where he changed his literary style creating his best works. In those works he still explored the motif of eroticism but described it as a part of wild nature that offers shelter to the colonial reality. The story Memil kkot p’il muryŏp is acknowledged as the best work of Yi Hyo-sŏk and one of most beautiful of modern Korean short stores. In this story Yi Hyo-sŏk reached for universal symbols, metaphors and archetypal images in order to create a poetic image of harmonious world where humans encounters are an integral part of nature. The main aim of the research focuses on describing those mythological motifs and explaining the way the author creates his own mythological vision.