1960년대 <세계전후문학전집>의 발간과 전위적 독서주체의 기획

Abstract

This paper examines how Shingu Book Publisher's Anthology of Postwar World Literature was translated, published and accepted in the 1960s, to show the ontological characteristics of postwar literature in South Korea. By tracing cultural intermediaries like Eo-Ryong Lee and Dongmun Sin, this study finds Shingu Book Publisher's anthology would not be symbolic outcome of the April 19th Revolution, but one of the intellectual and emotional foundations. Post-war world literature, intentionally selected by Saebyŏk's editorial staffs, demands both radical readers and resistant young men, closely responding to Saebyŏk's political and social articles. With an upsurge of reader's interest in political issues after the April 19th Revolution, Saebyŏk's editors give weight to postwar Korean literature, by running a special feature on “12 years of Korean novels.” Although Saebyŏk was suddenly discontinued in December 1960, its editors as a cultural intermediary, Eo-Ryong Lee and Dong-mun Sin, could make various special publications of Shingu Book Publisher under the radical reader-making project. Postwar world literature, however, came to lose its political resistance because of the rapidly changing political circumstance in South Korea. Although young readers accepted Anthology of Postwar World Literature in the aesthetic context, not texts that offers themselves as figures of identification for the radical reader, resistant creative subject could produce the emergence of new literature by ‘re-reading’ and ‘re-writing’ postwar world literature.