허준 소설의 자전적 성격에 관한 연구

Abstract

Heo Jun published three Korean novels and one Japanese one, during the Japanese occupation between 1910 and 1945. These works reflect his experiences of his childhood and school days which has been already dealt with in many of his essays. Heo Jun was born in Yongcheon and lived there for about 10 years. <Tak-Ryu(濁流)> and <Ya-Han-Gi(夜寒記)> show some changes his hometown had to go through in the late 1910s when Japan colonized Korea Peninsula and reorganized the administration area. In those two stories, young girls who build up friendship with the main character are the reflection of the writer's childhood in which he failed to be adapted to his school life. The protagonist of his novel isolates himself from the rest of the society, refusing to be part of the society he is in. The depiction of the main character's life is under the influence of Pensees written by B. Pascal as implied in many of Heo Jun‘s essays. Miki Kiyoshi(三木淸), who was very influential among Japanese intellectuals as a Marxist from the late 1920s, was teaching in the department of philosophy in Hosei Univ. at the time. It seems that Heo Jun who studied in Japan in the late 1920s was also influenced by Miki Kiyoshi. His efforts to integrate existentialistic ideas and socialistic ideas, and his interests in Budhism, are supportive of the assumption. What is worth noticing is that his childhood and school days are manifested differently by a variety of literary devices. Though his wife is best described in other essays as a wise woman, Heo Jun creates a totally different character in <Tak-Ryu> and <Ya-Han-Gi>. It seems right to say that finding autobiographical elements in novels written by Heo Jun is much more effective when it is used to widen the spectrum of interpretations.