식민지 조선 청년의 귀향과 전망 : 이광수의 『흙』을 중심으로

Abstract

Lee Kwang-su's narrative of Soil shows the spatial order and composition of Seoul and the countryside, which has been hierarchized into the center and province since modern times. At that time, the country appeared as a space that symbolized colonial Korea itself, which is being reorganized by imperial order and legal system. At the same time, it is presented as a space to amplify the desire of the colonial Korean youth who considered their own authority by the empire, and at the same time, to frustrate it. In addition, the narrative of Soil shows the process of the intellectual youth seeking a new community through the rural movement. But a leader- centered community collapses in the absence of a leader. And communities of economically independent units are forbidden by the colonial authorities. Meanwhile, the colonial Koreans youth who tries to establish himself as an enlightening subject creates a narcissistic identification grammar by magnetizing the object of enlightenment. But the subject of enlightenment can exist only in the process of enlightenment. Therefore in order to construct and manage the narrative of enlightenment, it is necessary to develop narrative by continuing the process of fulfilling such desire, rather than ending the narrative through the achievement of desire. Like this, Lee Kwang-su's narrative of Soil shows the expression and the critical point of the desire of the colonial Korean youth intellectual who is approved by the imperial order to build himself as an enlightenment subject while doing the process of moving.