[3] With a spirit of experimentation, Yi In-seong has consistently challenged the narrative grammar of realism and conventional assumptions regarding the relationship between the author, the text, and the reader.

“The Tomb of the Years Past” (Geu seworui mudeom, 1987) and “Now He is in Front of Me” (Jigeum geuga nae apeseo) also employ some of these techniques to give shape to the inner consciousness of his characters.

What Yi In-seong seeks to problematize is the perceived stability of the dichotomy between the performer and the spectator, the writer and the reader of the text, and ultimately the self and the other.

In “About You” (Dangsine daehaeseo) and “My Statement for Your Interrogation” (Dangsinui simmune daehan naui jagi jinsul), the author plays with various personal pronouns in order to deconstruct the stability of separate identities.

Recognizing the violence implicit in language, these works dismantle established ways of reading and the habits of thought associated with such conventions.