Korean novelistsJapanese colonial periodPoets
Yi Sang
李箱 (birth name 金海卿)1910 - 1937Novelist, poet, essayist, illustrator, architect
Yi Sang, born Kim Hae-gyeong, was a Korean poet, novelist, essayist, illustrator, and architect. He is a leading modernist and avant-garde writer of Korean literature, known for Wings and Crow's Eye View.
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From 1929 he worked across literature and illustration and was associated with modernist circles. His poetry and fiction used radical form to explore urban anxiety, self-consciousness, and fractured perception.