김동리의 초창기 평론에 나타난 문학세계 고찰

Abstract

In Kim, Dong-Ri’s literary world, the first period of his humanism is based on the ancient Greek humanism of Socrates and Plato, while the second period is based on the Renaissance humanism to be opposed to the age of God-centered. However, a rational human being idolized mechanism and materialism with development of science and technology and which resulted in Joseon’s ‘progressive realism’ and ‘revolutionary romanticism’. As such, his statements on KAPF reveal considerable logical weakness. Nonetheless, he stood firm in his view, since Kim tried to overcome socialist literature theory represented by KAPF and he also recognized the literary world to hold hegemony through the debates with left wings. Kim, Dong-Ri theorized the third humanism after the liberation. The third humanism is an intellectual historical orientation to challenge modern civilization of materialism. Kim insisted that in order to go beyond the scientism and materialism of the Western culture we should return to the orientalism. Orientalism aims for an autonomous human-being who works out his destiny in harmony with nature, with the spirit of vitalism. It is the core of the third humanism that through this oriental worldview, we can establish our national identity as well as overcome modernity.