This book contains thirty-six short stories by Kim Seung Ok, a master of the short story who led a galaxy of sixties writers and ushered in a revolution of sensuality in Korean literature. The collection “Sketches of Night Life” includes short and witty short stories, permeated with subtle humor, in which the author describes with psychological accuracy personal experiences and sometimes very intimate events of human life. This collection constituted the last volume of the complete five-volume collected works of Kim Seung Ok, therefore it can be called a kind of summing up of the writer’s literary activity.