소천의 시대 인식과 서사적 대응 - 1960년대 장편동화 『그리운 메아리』를 중심으로

Abstract

The 『A Longing Echo』 is the last published work of So-Cheon. This work has a significant meaning as it was awakening for the extended period of division and wish of unification thru the critical aware of at that era. This paper aims to analyze the narrative structural aspects such as configuration and subject matter of 『A Longing Echo』 and how they coupled with awareness of artists against that contemporary. In 1950s and 1960s, ironically even though the desire for unification was strong than any other time, however formal debate and movement for unification was difficult to raise. That’s because reunification discourse was used for self-sophistication to strengthen the regime in economica and political chaos after the war. In this recognition of age, So-Cheon has awakened the subsided unification discourse which was escaped from the contemporary bondage using framed structure by way of a fiction in fiction introducing transforming motifs and dream mode. And thru the spatial discourse structure, So-Cheon shows the reality of the South and the North that the division is further widening because of sprinting to establish the system and he strongly awaken the unification thru the symbolic application of each figures. So-Cheon’s post script that he wanted to describe the hearts of the Vietnamese as 10 years went by from the 6ㆍ25war happened and adults are forgetting it and boys seemed not to know about the war supports this.