한반도 통합문학의 가능성 탐색－월북 이후 이기영의 대표 작품을 중심으로－

Abstract

In this paper, among Lee Ki-young’s post-North Korea works, short stories Gaebyeok , medium-length novels Hyeonggwan , long novels {Land}, and large-scale novels {Tumen River} We conducted an exploration of the possibility of integrated literature from a Korean Peninsula perspective. Since the 1920s, he has been regarded as a representative realist as a jockey of Korean literature during the Japanese occupation and as the best writer in North Korea after liberation and division, confirming the possibility and impossibility of “integrated literature on the Korean Peninsula” as a starting from the 1920s. In the two works of the liberation period, Gaebyeok and Hyeonggwan , the reality of the time was able to face living characters. First of all, Gaebyeok is a work that realistically embodies the landscape of North Korean society during the liberation period, capturing the individual characteristics of the characters, including unstable landlord ‘Hwang Jusa’ and timid tenant farmer ‘Won Cheomji’. Hyeonggwan is a text that vividly captures the scenery of the end of Japan through anecdotes such as Kim Bu-deuk, a farmer, and Park Chul, a writer with a history of ideological criminals, while depicting conflicts between Japanese and farmers over forced labor against the backdrop of rural areas just before liberation. On the other hand, {Land} and {Tumen River} are works that clearly reveal narrative limitations due to excessive purpose. Of course, in the {Land} three-dimensional imagery takes place in the part where the double view of Soon-i’s mother against the main character Kwak Ba-wi is revealed. On the other hand, however, the part describing Kwak Ba-wi’s thoughts and minds, which cannot help admiring and admiring “Great Leader Kim Il-sung,” is a precursor to “Great Figure Literature,” and is a representative part of the schematic shape of a planar figure. In the {Tumen River}, the part where Gomson preaches the importance of education to Sidong is a narrative virtue that brings the importance of writing study to life. However, the summary of the inner side of Sidong, who is full of pride as an “anti-Japanese guerrilla member” of the Kim Il-sung unit, is problematic in that the three-dimensional nature of the character is intensified and planarized. Lee Ki-young’s literature corresponds to a text that simultaneously shows the possibility and impossibility of integrated Korean literature. The text of the liberation period after North Korea’s defection is judged to be a text that provides the necessity of integrated literature in that it has a sense of being a representative realist during the Japanese colonial period. On the other hand, in the case of {land} and {Tumen River} announced after the division, it confirms the impossibility of integrated literature in that the three-dimensional nature of characters is being planarized along with the weakening of artistry. Nevertheless, assuming that Lee Ki-young’s text is a mirror reflecting the times as a substance of North Korean literature, the author Lee Ki-young is a three-dimensional text that raises the need to expand the scope of integrated literature on the Korean Peninsula.