아동문학가 최병화의 필명 연구 - 최유범을 중심으로-

Abstract

Choi Byeong-hwa had published various works including boy novels and fairy tales as a children's literature author from the mid-1920s until his death in 1951 during the Korean War and continued to positively participated even in literary activities. A research across academic circles, research on Choi Byeong-hwa's literary works and activities is being actively being progressed these days. However, But it is a fact that there are a lot of undiscovered materials and unreached parts by researchers compared to the number of the released works. His history of literary activities were enough for him to have been an active writer for nearly 30 years. What failed to finalize Choi Byeong-hwa's pen name is its typical example. A pen name is the most basic information and the starting point for studying a writer. A research on an author can just begin from the accurate information and confirmation on a pen name. A variety of literary magazines were published including Bang Jeong-hwan's 『Children』 during the Japanese colonial era. Not only professional writers but also young literary people were also became involved in publishing their works and magazines. Due to the characteristic of the regularly published magazines, it was not easy to get a staff of writers to fill paper. For various other reasons, many contemporary authors come to use 'pen names' to present their works. Choi Byeong-hwa also used some pen names. It has been clarified in a recent research what 'Goh Jeop (孤蝶),' which has been known as his pen name in the meantime, was a mistake, what the pen names such as 'Jeop Mong (蝶夢),' 'Choi Jeop Mong (崔蝶夢),' 'Nah Bwi Ggum' were also used. He, and what changed his name to a Japanese name, known as 'Jo San Byeong Hwa (朝山秉和)' during the end of the Japanese occupation. The authors who briskly published a work of detective novels in the early 1930s can be taken Choi Byeong-hwa and Choi Yu-beom. This paper is writing is aimed to bring up 'Choi Yu-beom' as another pen name of Choi Byeong-hwa. In terms of its grounds, first, it is what the writer's name in 「Suna Chamsal (慘殺) Case」 as the detective story that was released in 『Byeolgeolgon (別乾坤)』 becomes 'Choi Byeong-hwa' in the table of contents and 'Choi Yu-beom' in the text. Secondly, there is an overlap between work by someone called it is what "Choi Byeong-hwa" rolls out a work side by side in the same issue of the magazine in which 'Choi Yu-beom' also published a work over or is what the period of the works by Choi Yu-beom and Choi Byeong-hwa. is overlapped. Third, it is what the same work includes 「Magyeongcheonri」 as a feature-length adventure novel, which was published in 1940 by Choi Yu-beom, and 「The Secret of the Cross」 as a feature-length adventure novel, which was released in 1949 by Choi Byeong-hwa.