‘밀항’의 상상력과 지도 위의 심상 ‘조국’ ー1963년 김달수의 소설을 중심으로ー

Abstract

Kim Dal-su was a Korean Japanese novelist who wrote his novel works such as “January 1963”, “The Reunion of Seoul” and “Memorial Service” in 1963. In those works, he employed inner world, South Korea and Japan as the place of narrative fiction, seeking to find out his identity between Korea - a divided fatherland - and Japan. The year 1963 in which Kim finished writing “Stowaway”, a full-length novel corresponds to a state of contemporary affairs such as ‘repatriation to the North Korea’, 4・19 Revolution, 5・16 Coup d'état and resumption of Korean-Japanese Conference. In the “Stowaway”, Chapter 6 (Epilogue) was written during the same period of Kim's three short stories as introduced above. Based on those works, this study sought to examine imagined geography of Kim as Korean Japanese regarding his fatherland. In particular, the emblem of Seoul illustrated through his imagination of ‘(re)stowing away’ from Japan toward South Korea was a true representation of his own memories about Seoul in colonized Korea that he experienced in past. And Huh Ung, a character of “the Reunion of Seoul” was the result of embodiment as ‘the displaced’ who disguises himself with the design and language of Japanese colonialism. This way, Kim's image of stateless person and his imagination of ‘(re)stowing away’ created a character of ‘stateless person’(Huh Ung) who wanders between his fatherland and Japan.