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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.

These e-books were translated as part of LTI Korea’s e-book project, “20th Century Korean Literature.” Forty more e-books are available for free at LTI Korea’s E-Library (http://library.klti.or.kr/taxonomy/term/25410) or by searching for “20th Century Korean Literature” in Google Play.