가와바타 야스나리『이즈의 무희』와 황순원『소나기』비교 -시공간과 인물을 중심으로-

Abstract

This article has tried to compare two famous short novels between Hwang Shun-won’s “Showers” andYasunari Kawabata’s “Dancer of Izu” in respect of time backgrounds, space backgrounds, andcharacters.This comparison has been resulted in the interesting three findings: Firstly, the timebackgrounds of two novels are fall commonly.Even though “Dancer of Izu” doesn’t have any specificdescription about the season of fall, “Shower” has a mixture scene summer and fall.The reason why twonovel has adopted fall as time background is that the separation of girls and boys has good agreementwith the emotional feeling of fall as time background; secondly, the space backgrounds of two novels aremountain areas commonly.“Shower” has the very vague but specific description of nature space, compareto “Dancer of Izu” tried to be concentrate on symbolizing nature as the images of the characters.In thetwo novels, the background of space is working for making more interesting narrative rather than anyrealized specific place; thirdly, the two works have the girls of the female protagonists, who are very actively to reach out to the boys.In spite of the class status and periodic circumstance they had beenfaced, two girls showed very aggressiveness in the novels.This aggressiveness is realized in the death ofgirl in the novel of “Showers’, the innocence of girl in the novel of “Dancer of Izu”.