김사량의 서사 전략과 조선/ 일본 사이의 글쓰기-「유치장에서 만난 사나이」를 중심으로

Abstract

Kim Saryang represented the agony of a keen writer in the last period of colony from Sino-Japanese to War the Pacific War. At that time, imperial logics such as New order theory over East Asia, Theory of a new structure etc. oppressively applied, so that the choices Chosun writers could get were extremely limited. In this situation, Kim Saryang tried to find a way to embody Chosun without sinking into imperial logics. For this purpose, he placed himself between Chosun and Japan and chose a narrative strategy that is hard to find in other writers. 「A man I met in lockup」 published in 1941 is a good demonstration of his position and narrative strategies. In this work, Kim Saryanag introduces intellectuals who seem to go along with the Empire but ‘Wang Counter’ an abnormal character twists on the logic with strange behaviors of unacceptability. Additionally, he made the meaning of a novel complicated by hiding narrative devices in places to make the speaker’s statement unreliable. And he increases ambiguity by crossing two different speakers constantly. Above all he stimulates conscience of the normal and general public through the conduct of abnormal and equivocal character ‘Wang Counter’. Furthermore by leaving ‘Wang Counter’ in the dark about to show up, he embodies ‘Wang Counter’ as a being of ubiquity not just an epic past figure. In the contradictory and awkward circumstances of the colonial end, he responded with these narrative strategies.