1960년대 소설의 小市民的 性格 고찰

Abstract

Urbanization of South Korea had been progressed in a short period. So-called ‘the petit bourgeois controversy’ in the late 1960’s was the result from such cultural condition. Some novels in the 1960’s deals with the controversial situation between the petit bourgeois consciousness and the democratic citizenship. Suggesting the petit bourgeois consciousness and the discourse of generation, some literary critics in the 1960’s tried to evaluate the concept of petit bourgeois by dividing the positive petit bourgeois consciousness from the negative petit bourgeois temper. Projecting the petit bourgeois consciousness into citizens' sense of time and space, this study focused how the urban sense appears when it meets rural area. As for the literary texts of such petit bourgeois consciousness, this study analyzed Kimk, Sung-ok's Muchin Gihang and Soh, Jong-in's Gang. In Muchin Gihang, Kim, Sung-ok represented the gaze of political powers and the fabricated nature of citizens' affirmation of authoritarian reality. Soh, Jong-in's fragmentary narrative Gang proposed the cynicism and self-pity of depressed men. These works showed us that the novels in the 1960’s internalized the petit bourgeois consciousness which was linked to the logic of passive adaptation. Beyond all this, there lied the great anxiety resulted from both the failure of the April 19th Revolution in 1960 and the rapidly compressed modernization of South Korea.