식민지 작가 박태원의 외국문학 체험과 ‘조선어’의 발견―영문학 수용과 번역 작업을 중심으로

Abstract

There are many factors in the formation of an author, writer or novelist. Of these factors experiencing foreign literature was a crucial step in the development of new Korean literature and of writers especially during the colonial era. In that era foreign literature had a decisive function. Park Tae-won, a famous modernist writer in the 1930's, is a good model for examining the experience of reading foreign literature in the colonial era, because he had left many essays and columns regarding this topic. He was especially attracted to contemporary English literature and translated severa works by Hemingway, Mansfield and J. M. Synge. Translation and its process had become an important foundation to his literary writings. Park, Tae-won was a leading stylist in modern korean literature. He is a very sensitive writer in commanding Korean language. As a writer who command Korean language, he refused to translate from the Japanesetranslated text but translated from the original English. In addition, his final translated product was very different from the Japanese version. His translation shows diversity and multiplicity in various aspects especially in choice of words, notation of foreign language and phrases and sentences. In spite of reading Japanese-based anthologies of foreign literature, receiving a colonial education system and referring to English-Japanese(Japanese-English) dictionaries, he was always concerned about Korean writing and went beyond imperial languages. Within and between imperial languages Park, Tae-won had found the potential of Korean language and literature.