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Dying Words

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
종생기
Romanization of Original
Jongsaenggi
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9788993360240
Page
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Series
20th Century Korean Literature

About the Author

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  • Yi Sang
  • Birth : 1910 ~ 1937
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Sang
  • Family Name : Yi
  • Korean Name : 이상
  • ISNI : 0000000358137117
  • Works : 71
About the Original Work
DLKL
  • 종생기
  • Author : Yi Sang
  • Published Year : 1937
  • English Title : Dying Words
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. “Dying Words” is a confessional story, narrated by a character named Yi Sang. This story is one of three, along with “Wings” and “Child’s Bone,” that takes the relationship between man and woman as its subject. This particular story, which is about a man who loves an unfaithful woman, juxtaposes the past and present to build the narrator’s inner world. As suggested in the title, this work foretells Yi Sang’s own imminent death.