일본 대중문학 속에서 왜곡되는 ＜조선＞－ 시바 료타로(司馬遼太郎)의 작품을 중심으로 －

Abstract

During the post war period, Shiba Ryotaro was so called a "national author" in literary circle. He was recognized as an author who had produced new historical characters by using the current historical background and themes. He aligned the theme and the characters based on the fast development of the economy and the stream of consciousness in the post war period. There are a lot of Shiba’s well-known writing pieces that are also published in Korea. In his historical and epochal work, there are number of novels that represent the relationship between modern history of Korean and Japan. Even though he himself has expressed his interests and affection toward <Chosun>, his major work such as "Cloud on the Hill", "The State of this Nation", and "Walking on the Kaido" imply contradiction, negativity, and distortion of <Chosun>. In the reoccurring remarks and organization of his work, he says that <Chosun> ended up having bare mountains due to metal casting until 6th century; therefore, the country had stopped growing economically and become stagnant. Especially, he says that, in the end of the 19th century, <Chosun>had grown to be a typical "Stagnant Nation in Asia" due to the extreme Confucianism and working for the cause. Therefore, Shiba’s thus remarks and organization of the research were used as an indulgence to justify Japan’s colonization to <Chosun> in Japan’s Imperial Era that had started in the end of the 19th century.