제2차 조선작가대회와 전후 북한문학 ― 한설야의 보고를 중심으로 ―

Abstract

The 2nd North Korean Writers' Convention was held under the influence of the 20th Soviet Communist Party Congress, where Khrushchev criticized Stalin and the personality cult during his era. The 2nd Convention, criticizing schematism and dogmatism, produced big impacts on North Korean literature. However, the liberal atmosphere created by the 2nd Convention "cooled down" at the beginning of Chollima Daegojo Period. The achievement of the 2nd Convention was mostly rejected or criticized. It was because they need ideological unification to mobilize their people. At the same time, the personality cult, which seemed to hold back for a while, came back and strengthened again. North Korea's official evaluation on the 2nd North Korean Writers' Conventin was that it criticized Revisionism and confirmed the principle of socialist realism, according to the spirit of the 20th Soviet Communist Party Congress. The real meaning of the Convention, however, was to show the chasm in the North Korean Literature and the possibility of its change. As the criticism on the schematism shows, there is a disagreement about the real meaning of socialist realism. It may be called a discord between the politics and aesthetics. But the Convention shows the victory of the latter. This conclusion affected many writers. But the aesthetical need was to forced to withdraw in front of the new era and they lost the power for the intrinsic change. And the Convention is evaluated as a moment to eascpe from the influence of the Soviet Union.