국한문체 『라란부인전』 , 「자유모(自由母)」에 대하여－대한제국기 량치차오 수용의 한 단면－

Abstract

Jayumo (自由母), published serially in the magazine Sonyeon Hanbando (少年韓半島), was the first attempt in Korea to translate Liang Qichao’s Madame Roland’s Biography (羅蘭夫人傳). This paper specified the translator of Jayumo as Yang Jae-gun, the president and managing editor of Sonyeon Hanbando and explored the reasons why the biography of a female hero was translated in Korean-Chinese style unlike the Daehan Maeil Shinbo edition. Yang preached his own theory of freedom in the first two series of Gyojajesinhak (敎子弟新學); Jayumo was originally written as a supplementary material that accorded with his idea. Yang’s theory of freedom eliminated the movement out of “freedom” and limited its value to moral and spiritual dimensions, which was consistent with Madame Roland’s Biography, implying the tragic irony that “the mother of the revolution is killed by the revolution.” Such a translation style as Jayumo is in stark contrast to Madame Roland’s Biography in its pure Korean style that emphasized the movement of freedom. Thus, the acceptance of Liang Qichao during the Korean Empire era was used for completely different purposes depending on the translator’s arrangement and variation.