단정 수립 이후 ‘전향’과 문학자의 주체구성－박영준의 해방기 작품을 중심으로

Abstract

This study considers the logic of conversion after the establishment of and independent government and examines the aspect of embodying “life” as ethics in the novels of Park Young- jun after liberation. This article also touches on the conversion of Park Young-jun, focusing in particular on the novels published after liberation. It is difficult to define the logic of conversion after an independent government was established. In general, the meaning of “conversion” is to abandon communism. However, after the establishment of an independence government, not only communists but also the middle-of-the-roaders had to make an announcement of conversion according to the law, which means that conversion after establishment of the independence government was not a matter of ideology：rather, it followed a logic of “nation building.”In this period, the novels of Park Young-jun focused on “life.” This concept of “life” is different from the concept used by writers to justify the pro-Japanese activities in which they had been involved. Furthermore, it is not the same as the “life” that writers with socialist tendencies embodied for the logic of abandoning communism in their novels in the Japanese colonial period. In Park Young-jun’s novels, we can see that “life” is utilized to describe “a feeling of ineffectualness” that came to the surface：by keeping one’s “love affair” at a distance, this feeling was reflected in the sense of ethics. This ethics of “life” and the desire for “a veritable (true) life” were concluded in building the new Subject ultimately. The most important thing is that the “life” as ethics reveals doubt about “national” desire, keeping its distance with meta-narratives such as “nation” and “nation building.” This idea is interlocked with conversion after the establishment of an independent government.