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The Wings (Yi Sang)
''The Wings'' (Korean: 날개) is a short novel written by the Korean author Yi Sang in 1936 and published in magazine ''Jo-Gwang'' (조광). It is one of the representative works in psychologism or intellectualism literature from the 1930s. It expresses anxiety, self-consciousness, depression and ego destruction. Synopsis It begins with a famous phrase “Have you ever seen a stuffed genius?(박제가 되어버린 천재’를 아시오?)".SangYi. (2001). “The Wings.” (Ahn Jung-hyo and James B. Lee, Translator) Seoul: Jimoondang Publishing Company. ‘I’ is not healthy, has intense self-consciousness and has no sense of reality. He was ‘Wife’s husband' and got his wife by trial and error. After his wife goes out, he goes to her room to smell her cosmetics or burn her toilet paper with a magnifying glass to replace his desire for a wife. She feeds sleeping pills to him to prevent him from leaving the ‘Room without Sunlight’. He goes up to the mountain to study h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yi Sang
Kim Hae-Gyeong ( hangul: 김해경, hanja: 金海卿, September 23, 1910 – April 17, 1937), also known as his pen name Yi Sang ( hangul: 이상, hanja: 李箱) was a writer and poet who lived in Korea under Japanese rule. He is well-known for his poems and novels, such as Crow's-Eye View ( hangul: 오감도, hanja: 烏瞰圖) and Wings ( hangul: 날개). He is considered as one of the most important and revolutionary writers of modern Korean literature. Life Kim Hae-Gyeong was born in Seoul, Korea on September 23, 1910 (August 20, 1910 in lunar calendar), in Seoul. His father Kim Young-Chang worked in the letterpress printing service in a palace before his birth, but after an accident that cut off his finger, he opened a barbershop and made their living. He was raised by his uncle Kim Yeon-Pil (hangul: 김연필, hanja: 金演弼) since 1913, because Yeon-Pil and his wife had no children at that point. Later, however, Yeon-Pil takes Kim Young-Sook (hangul: 김영숙, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |