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Child's Bone

About the E-Books

Author
Lee Sang
Co-Author
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Translator
Janet Hong
Publisher
Literature Translation Institute of Korea
Published Year
2013
Country
SOUTH KOREA (Seoul)
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century > 1910-1945

Original Title
동해
Romanization of Original
Donghae
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9788993360295
Page
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Series
20th Century Korean Literature

About the Author

  • Yi Sang
  • Birth : 1910 ~ 1937
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Sang
  • Family Name : Yi
  • Korean Name : 이상
  • ISNI : 0000000358137117
  • Works : 70
About the Original Work
  • 동해
  • Author : Yi Sang
  • Published Year : 1937
  • English Title : Child's Bone
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Yi Sang was one of Korea’s most innovative writers of modern literature, enough to deem him Korea’s finest modernist. He died at the early age of 27, but despite his short literary career, he produced surreal and highly experimental pieces that were avant-garde and far ahead of their time. His short story “Child’s Bone”, which is written in the stream of consciousness narrative style, skillfully depicts the love and affection between a woman named “Yim” and the two men in her life—Yun and the narrator. The story is composed of six natural scenes, like that from a play, from which the narrator’s inner thoughts and feelings flow out.