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Abstract

This study considers the existential mode of foreign literature and its relationship to culture during the fascist period before and after 1940 using In Mun pyung Lon as the subject. The literary magazine embraced both the institutional literary elite of the so-called Imperial University and the leftist ideologues who were leading public discussion, thus creating a complex and multilayered discourse space that cannot be reduced to any single representation. This space was co-occupied by the elites' attempt to establish a basis for self-justification by promoting the logic of “realistic acceptance” and by the ideologues' effort to move away from the path of fascism and delay its realization as much as possible. This study focuses on the latter case by examining those writers' translations and studies of foreign literature based on academism and their ‘theory of culture’. In particular, among the articles that were published in In Mun pyung Lon criticisms of the trend toward unification in German literature under the Nazis, the emphasis on critical prose-spirit through the study of Balzac, and reflections on the incapacitation of “civil and culture” are analyzed. By focusing on foreign literature and reorganizing the topography of discourse in In Mun pyung Lon this study highlights the implications of ‘individuality,’ ‘intellect,’ and ‘culture’ as forces opposing ‘the whole’ and ‘group consciousness’ under fascism.