월남 학병세대 선우휘의 이광수 표상― 단편 「黙示」(1971)를 중심으로

Abstract

Seon Woo-hui is from Jeongju, North Pyongan Province, which is the same as Lee Kwang-su. As such, in the previous studies focusing on the regional problem of Jeongju in North Pyongan Province, Seon Woo-hui’s literature has been highlighted in the continuum of the ideological genealogy of Northwestern nationalism represented by Lee Kwang-su. In particular, the short story ‘Revelation’(1971) was regarded as a work supporting such a spiritual connection as a text of understanding and reconciliation with Lee Kwang-su. This article, Which focuses on Lim Jong-guk’s Pro-Japanese Literary Theory(1966) as an opportunity for SeonWoo-hui to pay attention to Lee Kwang-su again in the late 1960s, interprets the short story ‘Revelation’ as a text of mourning and separation for Lee Kwang-su. For SeonWoo-hui, the unilinear testimony of Theory on Pro-Japanese Literature was a medium to evoke the scars left by Lee Kwang-su’s pro-Japanese and a task to be overcome as a literary insight, but at the same time it was a truth that cannot be ignored. If Lee Kwang-su was the pride and source of pride in Jeongju representing Northwestern nationalism, it was Sun Woo-hui’s judgment that Lee Kwang-su’s pro-Japanese relationship was a clear evidence of undermining that ideology, and that his excuses after liberation made it irreversible. For SeonWoo-hui, who student-soldier generation defected from the North, Chunwon Lee Kwang-su was a idol of disillusionment and had to break up to prove his generational identity as the right successor of Northwestern nationalism.