김수영 시론에 있어서 전위성의 성격과 기원

Abstract

Kim Soo-young, a post-war Korean poet, has historical significance in Korean modern poetry in that he had intended to integrate Avant-garde(or modernism) and Engagement(political participation). But after that integration in his criticism, his avant-garde was still not escape the nature of aesthetic modernism. Because he had appreciated avant-garde as an aestheticist literary project, avant-guard and engagement in his criticism were always confrontational. His idea stemmed from Japanese Avant-garde of Shi to shiron by Haruyama Yukio and Nishiwaki Kitagawa. Haruyama and Nishiwaki’s avant-garde was an pure surrealist movement which was completely excluded from the possibility of political participation. In the 1960s, Kim recognized his own limitation and tried to overcome it. But because of his traffic accident, his efforts ended in an uncompleted project. By this limitation, Kim Soo-young’s try to integrate avant-garde and political participation produced enormous logical contradictions. Consequently most of his articles had tried to discuss the possibility of political participation in avant-garde poetry had ambiguities and leaps in his logic. In his criticism, many concepts such as ‘experimentation, ambiguity, chaos, freedom, resistant poems’ are often incoherent and lacking continuity.