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The Darkroom of the Map

About the E-Books

Author
Lee Sang
Co-Author
-
Translator
Janet Hong,Jack Saebyok Jung
Publisher
Literature Translation Institute of Korea
Published Year
2014
Country
SOUTH KOREA (Seoul)
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Fiction > 20th century

Original Title
지도의 암실
Romanization of Original
Jidoui amsil
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9788993360516
Page
-
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
  • 지도의 암실
  • Author : -
  • Published Year : 1932
  • English Title : The Darkroom of the Map
More About the Original Work
Descriptions -
  • English(English)

Yi Sang (1910 – 1937) 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. He showed brilliant literary prowess not only in poetry and fiction, but also in essays, exploring the confusion and anxiety of those living under Japanese colonial rule, the psychology and despair of uprooted urban dwellers, and the alienation, disquiet, and terror experienced by intellectuals, more than perhaps any other writer in Korean history. He did not shy away from presenting decadent subject matter, and experimented ceaselessly with form, created self-deprecating characters with excessive self-consciousness, portrayed the delirium of sensation, and employed wit, paradox, montage, and other various techniques all to brilliant, enigmatic effect, to the extent that his works resist easy comprehension even to this day.