이상(理想)의 모색과 좌절의 연대기 - 임화論

Abstract

The object of this study is to review the life and works of Im Wha who lead to death from leaving home. To do this study, this paper focuses on his early poems, short epic, the poetry books of recall (『Hoesangsijip』). As a result, his poems included an intentionality of leaving home and the beginning of short epic. And, the short epic have hidden narrative style that principle could called ‘style of absent’. The style have a novelistic method that make problematic situation and storyline. Also The poetry books of recall(『Hoesangsijip』) represented the mind of Im Wha who he pondered on where to go ‘in crossroad again’ remembering the old days. A road of Im Wha was aimed for harmony of the subject and world in literature and real life. As such, the road of Im Wha extends from Jongno crossroad to the Hyunhaetan, Pyongyang and Moscow. But, unfortunately, he trusted an ideal world while the world betrayed him. To conclude, his life was death of irony. In a word, the life of Im Wha is a chronicle of discouragement and a search of an ideal.