Yi Sang: Selected Works

Author: Yi Sang

Editor: Don Mee Choi

Translators: Jack Jung, Don Mee Choi, Sawako Nakayasu, Joyelle McSweeney

Publisher: Wave Books (2020)

Formally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang’s works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of world literature in the early twentieth century and the political upheaval of 1930s Japanese occupied Korea. While his life ended prematurely at the age of twenty-seven, Yi Sang’s work endures as one of the great revolutionary legacies of modern Korean literature. Presenting the work of the influential Korean modernist master, this carefully curated selection assembles poems, essays, and stories that ricochet off convention in a visionary and daring response to personal and national trauma, reminding us that to write from the avant-garde is a form of civil disobedience.