헤세 문학의 수용, 자기완성의 수신서

Abstract

This study focuses on the process of accepting Hesse literature in Korea. The attention was drawn to the 1960s and 1970s when it was considered that interest in Hesse literature reached its peak. Before examining the specificity of acceptance of Hesse literature, this study grasped the process of accepting Hesse literature in preparation for the development of Korean literature. Hesse was introduced as an oriental‐friendly, romantic, anti‐war writer in the modern literary world. In the liberation space, with the prize of Nobel Prize in 1946, the specific tendency of his works was introduced with deep interest in his literary achievement, but he was understood as a romantic writer exploring the inside. By the 1950s, the academic foundation of German language and literature departments at Korean universities was established and the translation and introduction of Hesse literature became more active. After the 1960s, scholarly intellectuals who received a degree in Germany started to work in the classrooms and theaters, and began to access scholarly approaches, including publishing a complete collection of Hesse. Korean accepters read and discussed Hesse novels for academic completion and intellectual growth, not political and realistic contexts. As early as the 1960s and 1970s, Hesse literature was accepted as a discipline textbook of self‐completion. "Siddhartta" and works with other Oriental moods were received as discipline textbooks to respond to intellectual writers, and "Demian", "Knulp", "Narziß und Goldmund" were accepted as youth growth novels. It was not a human inquiry based on the understanding of the world, but Hesse novels as a discipline textbook for self‐completion of the individual. His works were understood in the category of growth novel, excluding elements that resisted and conflicted with reality as Hesse experienced two world wars, and in the process, wandering and adventure were regarded as wasted and temperance was emphasized. Hermann Hesse's novels in the 1960s and 1970s were embraced by the self‐completion discipline textbooks, which is the intellectual peculiarity of Hesse literature accepters but we cannot overlook the nature of the society as a whole, including the publishers. At that time, the social logic of growth centered on the five‐year economic development plan was implemented from 1962, and capitalism was spread rapidly aiming at high economic growth. The situation was demanding devotion, temperance, sincerity and diligence rather than wandering, trial and error, adventure. For this reason, it was difficult to deeply explore the freedom of human beings and the focus was on the functions to be equipped as human beings for social activities and economic activities.