David Carter is a writer, translator and freelance journalist, and currently Professor of Communicative English at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He has also taught at the universities in the UK, lecturing on European cinema, and published on German and French literature, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, film history, drama and applied linguistics. He has recently published translations of Georges Simenon's Three Crimes and Honore de Balzac's Sarrasine, and written Pocket Essentials on Georges Simenon, Literary Theory and Kamera Books on East Asian Cinema and the forthcoming The Western