K-REATIVE · KOREAN BOOKS
| Korean title | 이상 소설 전집 |
|---|---|
| Author | 이상 |
| Publisher | Minumsa |
| Sales unit | 단권 |
| Book ID | ISBN: 9788937463006 |
| Condition | Brand New · Korean language |
FROM THE KOREAN PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
The unfortunate genius who created the modernity of Korean novels
An experimental novel that pioneered the history of modern Korean literature through avant-garde and deconstructive writing.
The confused and anxious inner psychology of those who survived the crisis of colonial modern Korea
A fierce exploration of the anxiety, fear, and despair of uprooted urbanites and alienated intellectuals.
“I will continue to breathe in the disappointment of not being able to die and the revenge of not being able to live. I hope now. It is nothing, neither the hope of living nor the hope of dying. However, I hope that the luck I will have at the end will not come to me until I finish writing this scary record. It is a scary record. The pen is my final sword.”
In “The Twelfth of December,” his first novel and only full-length novel written at the young age of 20, Lee Sang said this. For him, ‘novel writing’, which was a “terrible record” and “the last sword,” could be said to be an expression of the real-life crisis that Korean society faced at the time and the anxiety, fear, and despair of those of us who had to survive that crisis.
Lee Sang, who is called a ‘genius’, a ‘madman’, or a ‘modern boy’, is well known as a poet, but he is also a great novelist who embodies the chaotic and anxious inner psychology of colonial modern Korea and the people who lived through that period through experimental composition and unconventional writing style. Lee Sang attempted to expose the repressed impulses and hidden desires of uprooted urbanites and alienated intellectuals, and to desperately reveal their unconsciousness, through characters in novels who exist only abstractly, without a basis for social existence or a background in life. ‘Novel writing’, which is faithful to one’s own unique perspective and thoughts without relying on any specific ideology, unhesitatingly shows Lee Sang’s modernist aspects as well as his genius talent that challenged the artistic philosophy of the time.
Lee Sang's novel, which gives rise to various critical discourses and controversies even today due to its experimentation and avant-gardeness, can still be said to be a tremendous shock and challenge to reality with its literary existence alone.
Concise sales edition based on the publisher-provided Korean description.
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