Abstract EN:

The young corean poet yun ton-ju was born 1916 in north jiandao (mandchuria), came to pyong-yang and seoul for his studies and died 1942 in the japanese prisons. With exeception of a little number of poems, which were published in some quite unknown reviews, his writings were published only 1948 under the title: heaven, wind, stars and poetry. He posthumously became a kind of national poet and was considered as the symbol of resistance against japan. This is the first study in french concerning yun tong-ju: it strikes a balance of all preceding critical studies in corean language. Then it analyses methodically the years of formation and the poetical itinerary of the young man. By the way it gives a commentary of some typical poems and adds a synthetical review of the main recurrent themes: anguish, culpability and will to sacrifice, which counterbalance his sensibility to nature and his strive for life. The books ends with a very considerable and valuable bibliography.