합치라는 환영－대학생 담론과 1970년대 최인호 문학－

Abstract

The writer, Choi Inho, approached the issues deriving from modernization, industrialization, and urbanization of the Korean society in the 1970s through the key words such as family, city, and youth. Choi Inho represented the youth culture of the 1970s, and the views on the author are largely divided into two branches. One is that the author explored reality and modernity of a society within the contradiction of cheerfulness and melancholy. And the other is that the author committed himself to the logic of the market and capital. In this regard, his novel Scary Multiple is a notable work that projected the military government during the industrialization era of the 1970s and the discourse of university students through the protagonist named Choi Junho, a university student writer that is evocative of the author. Scary Multiple underscores the impact of the discourse of university students on Choi Inho’s literature in the 1970s as well as the author’s approach to portraying university students of his time. This paper attempts two tasks. First, it analyzes a theory on the youth culture that was published in an anthology of Choi Inho’s essays. Second, it explores the militarization of universities and the writing of novels by university students as shown in Scary Multiple. By doing so, the paper examines what the university students of the time undertook and how, in terms of the idea of coincidence. Scary Multiple did not receive much attention in research on Choi Inho’s literary work from the 1970s. Nonetheless, it is an important work as the author addressed the issues of university community and university students of the 1970s in depth. This paper investigates the author’s methodological view on the historical evaluation of university students of the 1970s and their self-perception of identity. And it verifies how the meaning of de-coincidence narratives and the identity of student writers appeared in the discourse of university students as represented in Choi Inho’s literature in the 1970s.