‘殉敎者’ 像의 形成과 受容 －春園과 島山의 유대 관계에 대한 고찰－

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine a kinship between Lee, Kwang-soo and Ahn, Chang-ho. As a political theorist, independentist, and thinker, Ahn(Do-san[島山] was his pen name) led Lee to join in a political organization. Before Japanese Annexation of Korea, 1910, Ahn organized the ‘Sinminhoe(新民會)’ that was a secret society for resistance movement against Japan. Lee participated in Ahn's organization during his studying in the Japan. After the 1919 Independence Movement, Ahn worked for the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai and organized the Far East chapter of the Young Korean Academy. Many youth gave Ahn's society support with aspiring to independence. Ahn was not a writer, nevertheless he inspired the modern writers of Korea who had a faith in unity of an ethnic community. Lee Kwang-soo and Joo Yo-han(朱耀翰) are typical of those who showed loyalty to Ahn. Lee wrote a novel, The Leader(先導者), based on a real life of Ahn. But Lee felt a empathy for Ahn's situation, as a result the hero in this novel is not Ahn but Lee under a mask of Ahn. In the story, Ahn was described as follows: The first, he was the origin of the young political exiles who made a choice his belief instead of a worldly success. The second, he was a representative of 'the northwest'. The title of 'the northwest' was given to people based on northwest Korea, especially, the Pyeongan-do(平安道) province). This province was known for its civilization under the support of missionaries, served as a base for rising of na- tionalism. Lee was born in this province as well, he had a kind of feeling he might tie with Ahn. The third, he carried out his mission faithfully in response to absolute voice originated from an ethnic community, just as a apostle.