해방 전후 시의 사적 윤리와 공적 윤리 : 오장환을 중심으로

Abstract

The inclusion of both the private ethics of self-criticism and public ethics of the poems by O Jang-Hwan, after the liberation, is related to the general attempt of ethical and political rehabilitation of the colonial period. In this paper, the most urgent problems of literature to be constructed at that time are ‘conscience’, ‘self-criticism’, ‘overcoming of peti-bourgeois’, ‘new citizen consciousness’, ‘democracy’, ‘We looked at the process of repositioning the private and public spheres together under the name new community’ or ‘state’. The problematic point of O Jang-hwan showed the work of linking the criticism of himself before liberation and the poet as the subject of the newly constructed literature. This feature is more meaningful because it embodies the politics of the Nam-lo -Dang and the Josun-Munhakga-Dongmaeng. It is also an important point that the ethics of private individuals are extended to political processes, and this leads to a new phase of evaluation of the authenticity of poetry. The authenticity of poems in the liberation period depends on the ability to sublimate the private ethics of the self-criticism to the public level. The ethical legitimacy of political lottery and practice exists in the peculiarity gained by the process and authenticity of self-confessions and reflections, and it is a feature of this periodic aesthetics that it is oriented toward futurism through such ethical and political legitimacy. If the past is equalized as a citizen, the future is ideologized as progressive realism, democracy and people. In addition, since the level of private ethics is linked to the political dimension and the problem of public political sovereignty, O Jang-Hwan’s poems demand a different approach from the dilemma of peti-bourgeois ethics. If the poetry of him in colonial period and the his individualism are connected to the problem of ethics that can be chosen, the poems of him, basically excludes individualism and aims for communitarianism. This point seems to be a conscious point of him. The questions of conscience, self-criticism and confession are not limited to personal ethics in this respect. It is a private matter in that it is a process of proving authenticity to move toward a collective solidarity, but at the same time it touches on the problem of communal political sovereignty.