전환기 문학의 어긋남 – 변영만의 글쓰기를 중심으로

Abstract

In this thesis, I explore the perception of the times in the writing of Pyŏn Yŏng-man(卞榮晩; 1889-1954), an intellectual in the transition period, in a synchronic and comprehensive manner. Pyŏn Yŏng-man used both writing in classical Chinese script and writing in Korean mixed script in political and ideological time and space from the beginning of the 20th century to the post-liberation period. In this thesis, I examined in detail how Pyŏn Yŏng-man perceived the most acute issues of each era, such as imperialism and social evolution during the patriot-enlightenment times, colonial Chosǒn and Chosǒn people under the Colonial Period of Imperial Japan, and socialism and Karl Marx in the Liberation Space. In the transition period of Chosǒn, Pyŏn Yŏng-man reflected on the Western modern times such as imperialism, social evolution, material civilization, and socialism through spiritual and cultural values ​​such as religion and literature, and further sought alternatives beyond that. At the same time, Pyŏn Yŏng-man recognized imperialism, the theory of social evolution, Chosǒn and Chosǒn people, socialism, etc. as a cracked and ideological attitude. In this way, in the writings of Pyŏn Yŏng-man, these two conflicting attitudes coexist and confront. This is a birth pain in the process of struggling to coexist an incompatible concept pair of “writing in classical Chinese script and writing in Korean mixed script, tradition and modern, Eastern and Western” in the time and space of the modern transition period in East Asia. Therefore, the shortcomings such as contradiction, confusion, prejudice, and distortion that appear in the writings of Pyŏn Yŏng-man need to be viewed in a balanced way along with the merits of religion, literature, spirit and principle.