박동실 『열사가』의 원천 자료 이용과 구성 방식

Abstract

The Yeolssa-ga songs by Dong-sil Park, which were created for the martyrs who fought against the Japanese invasion of Korea in the early 20th Century, are representative works of modern pansori. The songs talk of “Yu Kwan-sun Yeolssa-ga” and “Yi Zun · Ahn Jung-geun · Yun Bong-gil Yeolssa-ga”. The representative source materials of Yeolssa-ga are Ahn Jung-geun Sagi (1946), a play on Jung-geun Ahn; Yi Zun Seonsaeng Jeon (1947), a biography of Zun Yi; Baekbeom Iljee (1947), an autobiography of Koo Kim; and Yu Kwan-sun Jeon (1948), a biography of Kwan-sun Yu. Dong-sil Park has adopted or rejected contents from these source materials, modified some details of the adopted contents, and added to the fictional content. For the formation of these content, first, he adopted the traditional style, which is a series of biographies, following a similar theme in “Yi Zun · Ahn Jung-geun · Yun Bong-gil Yeolssa-ga”. So, he arranged the stories of three martyrs who fought against the Japanese abroad in the time order that appends his comment as the conclusion. Second, he adopted the form of life history which describes one’s life from birth to death in “Yu Kwan-sun Yeolssa-ga”. He wrote the lyrics of Yeolssa-ga following the traditional way of composition of pansori that exaggerates a specific part of the narrative disproportionately. For the composition of important narrative parts of Yeolssa-ga, he used some famous narrative units of traditional pansori songs, which are handed down from Yi– dynasty. Yeolssa-ga songs are the first works of modern narrative short pansori. In this respect, Yeolssa-ga songs are monumental works in the history of pansori.