염세주의를 초월하는 북한 형상- 홍석중의 "폭풍이 큰 돛을 펼친다"론

Abstract

This thesis attempts to examine Hong Seok-jung's Juche novel, The Storm Spreads its Big Sails(2005), and examines the point that this novel embodies the North Korea that transcends the pessimistic world image. To reproduce the pessimistic world image is to deviate from the socialist world image, which is the original spirit of North Korean literature. However, from the point of view of Kim Il-sungism and Kim Jong-ilism, which emphasizes Juche realism rather than socialist realism, it can be tolerated even if this novel has such a special “conspicuous color”. It is to emphasize the justification that Kim Il-sungism and Kim Jong-ilism has the power to save the lives of the people even in the midst of a pessimistic “storm” that fragments lives more extensively than the “storm” of capitalism and imperialism. This thesis can be considered to specifically explore the following three. First, from the perspective of a pessimistic world view, we explore the protagonist of the Juche novel, which is thoroughly “individuated”. The individualized protagonist crosses the boundary between life and death, but is a Nietzscheian superman who breaks this boundary and plays in this boundary. Second, the process of the main characters realizing the Nietzscheian existence that affirms the “individuation” of themselves is analyzed in detail. In other words, they transcend the Schopenhauerist compassion that denies and avoids this boundary, and promotes a pessimistic world view. Third, we explore the meaning of the “special” revolutionary Suryong that this novel embodies, that is, the hope for North Korea where no one is ‘individuated’ thanks to the empathy of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. This will allow us to look into the “special” Juche era portrayed by Hong Seok-jung, which is not as a narrative of socialist realism but as a narrative of pessimistic existentialism, which takes on a new color of Kim Il-sungism, Kim Jong-ilism.