폐허에서 동심을 발견하는 두 가지 방법 －박화목과 손동인을 중심으로－

Abstract

Park Hwa-Mok and Son Dong-In, children’s literature authors born in 1924, each endeavored to discover the child’s heart amidst chaotic realities in their own ways. Park Hwa-Mok sang of the child’s heart based on poetic imagination, and especially since the 1970s, he strived to help children, whose local/rural landscapes were destroyed by industrialization, recover their emotions. As an alternative, Park Hwa-Mok reflected his own religious beliefs of Christian idealism in his literature, aiming not only to long for the lost local/rural emotions but also to capture the emergence(resurrection) of the child’s heart as new over the ruins and death. Son Dong-In, based on the prose world and reality, aimed to portray the mind of children as the weak, and around the 1970s, explored national connectivity through the study of traditional fairy tales. Initially, Son Dong-In defended the child’s heart as an id, but later his perspective seemed to shift toward emphasizing a moralistic approach in children’s literature. However, from a realist perspective, by portraying the reality of children as the weak and supporting their will to overcome, Son Dong-In’s fundamental points of view on the child’s heart and children’s literature were affirmed to be steadfast.