황순원의 해방직후 소설 一考 ― 목넘이 마을의 개를 중심으로 ―

Abstract

This study aims at illuminating the mentality and a social aspect in Hwang, Sun-Weon's Novels after the Korean Liberation. The post period of the Korean Liberation demanded a rearrangement of literary spirits to construct a new national literature. It presented a claim to overcome the colonial age and a self-criticism of the writers of the literary society. There are four choices to select: the first is to absorbing the political trend similar to the belief of a writer himself or herself in the colonial age so that he or she could justify his or her behavior in the past. The second is to cover writers' activities with a trick and to build up his or her standing point. The third is not only to criticize the past sentimentally, but also to take in the current time sentimentally. The fourth is to hold an objective reality and respond the situation with a prosperous future. Hwang, Sun-Weon's Novels of the Korean Liberation Period provides a spiritual burden to the country because they cooperated with Japanese colonists. They made an effort to overcome the past and to seek a new path in a liberated society. To deal with the past is the center of the literary field of those days.