해방 이후 김사량의 문학적 삶과 칠현금 읽기

Abstract

This paper focused on a phenomenon, in which Kim Saryang's works were newly arousing interests since the Korean residents in Japan were first attracted by it, and examined closely how he was described in North Korean literature. In North Korea Kim was re-appraised and re-evaluated around the mid-1980s. Nonetheless, his literary career was warped and fabricated as being influenced by Kim Ilsung's anti-Japanese activity. The publishment of his works owed to the continued re-evaluation about him conducted by Korean residents in Japan, and to his published works in Japan. Also, his rehabilitated reputation as ‘a conscientious intellectual’ in the mid-1980s was the result led by Kim Ilsung and Kim Jeongil. It could be a political code having another context to showup Kims' thoughtful regards. This paper aimed to reveal the writer's anguish and responsibility struggling for the new age centering on his biographical novel, A Seven Stringed Harp which was different from his other political works. In Kim's works we could find the traces of his struggle to adapt himself to the literary reality of North Korea depending on his former trauma he had experienced under colonial period. As a result, he could achieve a delicate esthetic showing the vitality of the age among the novels in the burgeoning period of North Korean socialism. With this esthetic he could cure the writers' physical and spiritual deformity, and represent very impressive scenes trusting positive future, a new possibility to be a literary writer.