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spacestationtrustfund's review
3.0
『종생기』(終生記) by Yi Sang (이상 李箱). Available on Wikisource. English translation by Jack Jung and Janet Hong.
Of course I end up fainting right there. I die. I wander the afterlife. In the underworld, the moon is bright. I shut my eyes again. From the sky, a voice asks, How old are you? I am twenty-five years and eleven months. An early death, I see. No, sir, it is a late death.
나는 물론 그 자리에 혼도하여 버렸다. 나는 죽었다. 나는 황천을 헤매었다. 명부(冥府)에는 달이 밝다. 나는 또다시 눈을 감았다. 태허(太虛)에 소리 있어 가로되, 너는 몇 살이뇨? 만 25세와 11개월이올시다. 요사(夭死)로구나. 아니올시다. 노사(老死)올시다.
veronikav's review
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
Of course I end up fainting right there. I die. I wander the afterlife. In the underworld, the moon is bright. I shut my eyes again. From the sky, a voice asks, How old are you? I am twenty-five years and eleven months. An early death, I see. No, sir, it is a late death.
Dying Words is a late prose of Yi Sang which has a strongly self-deprecating, ironic sense of humor. In it, the main character called Yi Sang is preparing his own last words, his last work before death. His concern with aesthecism and appearances satirizes his own prose and sense of beauty. The character is confronted with his lover Jeonghui who despises his pretentious and artistic tendencies and ruins his carefully prepared speeches by not reacting in the way he wishes. Jeonghui, who has been constructed to be like a romantic heroine from the works of French authors destroys Yi Sang's perceptions of her and turns out to be still cheating on him.
Dying Words is a late prose of Yi Sang which has a strongly self-deprecating, ironic sense of humor. In it, the main character called Yi Sang is preparing his own last words, his last work before death. His concern with aesthecism and appearances satirizes his own prose and sense of beauty. The character is confronted with his lover Jeonghui who despises his pretentious and artistic tendencies and ruins his carefully prepared speeches by not reacting in the way he wishes. Jeonghui, who has been constructed to be like a romantic heroine from the works of French authors destroys Yi Sang's perceptions of her and turns out to be still cheating on him.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Minor: Sexual violence
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