The story of Mrs. Kim Sa Manjung and Life of Queen Injyon are the obverse and reverse of the same coin. In his second and last novel, the famous Korean writer "disguises his characters' because of the censorship of the time, but actually what you are doing is a veiled criticism of the emperor after suffering exile in which he would die within a few years.  Before narrating the story of Mrs. Sa, Kim Manjung had written Dream of Nine Clouds (published in Spanish by Hyperion in 2006), considered the first modern novel of Korea, and that should be read prior to see the huge change that occurs in style. In Dream of Nine Clouds Manjung Kim met a radiant, magical, great. A high-flying intellectual makes us dream and delight in a prose full of optimism, grace, beauty and musicality. In the story of Mrs. Sa it is already broken his pen, like his life, and is more difficult to perceive the creative genius overflowing Dream of Nine Clouds. The author barely has the strength to sketch the outline of a tragedy that ends quickly in a happy ending, which contrasts with the hell he lived in exile. The life of Queen Injyon is part of the trend called "literature palace" with which it generally refers to works written by court ladies who were direct of everything happening around the monarch witnesses. They are stories that not only reflect the soul of the female aristocracy of the time (seventeenth century), but also a historical document of omnipotence and the whims of kings who considered themselves the center of the universe