전쟁의 폐허에서 자라난 젊음과 공민적 삶의 가능성 - 박태순의 장편소설 『어느 사학도의 젊은 시절』(1980)에 대하여

Abstract

Park Tae Soon(1942~)'s “A young days of some history student”(1980) is a well-revealed novel that the potentiality and uniqueness of a Korean Bildungsromans. Bildungsroman is a major European fiction genre that narratively implemented the youth associating with a political and economic modernity. But Korean bildungsroman is born in the special conditions of the third world modernization so called ‘development of underdevelopment’. Youth are also shaped close to an unseasonable youth. That can only be distinguished with an features of European Bildungsroman. “A young days of some history student” is problematically treated with modernity and youth of Korea as a Third World. “A young days of some history student” represented a wandering and learning of three young people living a chaotic situation in Korea after the 6․25 Korean civil war, and criticized Korean's modernity of politics and economy & culture. That way, the novel explores the historical sources that making possible modernity of Korea in the late of 1970's industrialization and democracy & dictatorship. “A young days of some history student” is experimented how to be born democratic and public citizens in a transitional conjuncture of the post-civil war. This is the significance of “A young days of some history student” that achieved as a Korean bildungsroman.