『오뇌의 무도』 재판(1923)에 대하여

Abstract

This article presents an attempt at investigating the status and significance of the second edition(1923) of The Dance of Agony in the itinerancy of Kim Eok’s translations of modern Western poems as a translator. Researches on the modern literature of Korea have so far focused on its first edition(1921), but its second edition has clear differences from the first one in the number of works, organization of a chapter, and styles of writing. In the second edition, Kim Eok managed to solve the translation limitations of the first edition at least partially while translating works from collections of poems translated in Japanese that he did not consult in the first edition including The Lost Jewelry(1920) by Horiguchi Daigaku and adding ten more works. Kim Eok made a particular attempt at extreme domestication by translating texts of the translated poems close to his spoken language(dialect of Pyeongan Province) unlike in the first edition. The second edition thus holds different significance and value from the first one. In the preface of the second edition, Kim announced his plan of publishing series of poem collections for individual poets whose works were included in The Dance of Agony in years to come. Even though his plan did not pan out, it shows that he was aware of collection series of modern Western poems translated in Japanese during the modern period. These series were published in Japan under the influence of The Canterbury Poets series in the U.K., which suggests that his plan was part of the global spread route of world literature from France through the U.K., the U.S. and Japan to Joseon. His uncompleted plan was still not carried out by others later, but the second edition of The Dance of Agony became the origin and example of anthologies of poems translated in Korean during the modern days. Especially, the second edition of The Dance of Agony proposes a new agenda to ask questions about the significance of anthologies of translated poems in the history of Korean literature in relation to the acceptance of world literature and the expansion process of its canons in the category in Korea during the modern period.