노동 소설의 새로운 모색

Abstract

This paper studies a possibility of a new Korean labor-novel. Korean labor-novel had first come on the history of korean literature in 1920's. And from 1920's to the 2000's, the korean labor-novel has been repeated appearing and disappearing. But korean labor-novel becomes sluggish in our period. This paper examined significance of literature as a movement, focusing literary nature of literary text, because the basic proposition literature as a movement is still valid in our period. For this reason, this paper focuses labor-novels produced in 1980's and in our period. Especially, this paper did prior treat the 2000's labor-novelist, Lee Jaeyong's labor-novels ; A Young laborer ; By the way, did the boy stopped crying? In our perion a boundary of a labor-novel is gradually tarnished. Thus a new concept of a labor-novel being well balanced in our perion is demanded. 1980's labor-novels had many faults ; a standardization of characters, simplification of narrative structure, riskiness of degrading literature to a political instrument, and so on. A new labor-novel in our period is requested for reflecting contemporary social realities, especially contemporary labor realities. Jae-yong Lee 's labor-novels ; A Young laborer ; By the way, did the boy stopped crying? are a guide for A gropong for a new labour novel in our period.