강소천 단편 사실동화 연구

Abstract

Kang, So-chon wrote lots of fairy tales and he got absolute love from readers in his life time, however, his evaluation in post assessment is much lower than his life time. This evaluation is mainly based on his fantasy fairytale and the novel for children even short realistic fiction commanded majority parts of his fairy tale published in his lifetime. As study for his majority of short realistic fiction was insufficient, the evaluation for his existing literature should be reconsidered and the study of short realistic fiction is desperate and urgent. This study deduced characteristic of So-chon’s short realistic fiction thru finding what and which structural pattern it reveals. From the subject side, So-chon’s short realistic fiction is shaping the child’s mind, ethics of community and adult’s awakening. That means his intention was making children to grow up as a healthy member of society bearing the juvenility with the help of an adult. This is the father’s word he wants eventually as a symbolic father as well as a real father. In this regards, people in his works are bright and healthy wrestle to resolve the issue in any situation. They never despair or settle down in current situation. We could not call these works as ‘escapist’ or ‘retrospective’. Another topic, on subject aspects, ‘a literary man based on the Anti-Communist Ideology’ some researchers have raised, also should be reconsidered. Looking at his narrative structure to embody the above subject, we can find out characteristic figure at first. He set up the children of high grade in elementary school and the adults as a main character with almost half of discordant home, and they are mostly figures resolving the confront issues thru the internal recognition. Second, in the plot, he draws reader’s interest by various beginning and he creates the short’s aesthetics thru the organic connection of beginning and ending. This study for structure of fairy tale might be regarded as his search accomplishing the literature to overcome the subject aspects of the lessons that shaped with father’s word. His short realistic fiction contains his intention to convey the father’s word and emphasized their leading role in their seats to children and adults. Therefore his short realistic fiction can hardly be free from moralistic, but we could not overlook the good works in literature among the fairy tale shaping the children’s mind as it is and many works require the ethics of community and adult’s recognition. A reasonable evaluation for his fairy tale is necessary and aesthetics in fairy tale style which So-chon searched for should be evaluated alongwith.