심훈의 상해시절과 「동방의 애인」

Abstract

This study has taken a look at the direction of socialist independence movement that was the ideological foundation for the early literature activities of Shim Hoon with the subject of 「The Lover of the East」, the w ork with b ackground of Shim Hoon’s experience in China and time in Shanghai and this effort is shown in relation to the popular narration. First, it discusses the criticism on duplicity of Shanghai during the colonial period and conflict of line in the Independence Movement. 「The Lover of the East」was under the direct interests on the activities involved in the Independence Movement that was collectively engaged in by Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai, several political organization, Korean residents in China, and the secret society in the Shanghai region. Namely, Shanghai of colonial era was the hub for the Independence Movement of Koreans in overseas that it was taken with the critical sense of controversy for the Independence Movement that was formed around the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai in 1920s. In particular, this type of his intent was even more at issue in the aspect of solidifying in the public narrative style based on the popular interest and understanding with certain distance to the KAPF-style creative method that directly expressed a class or ideology. As for the solidarity in camaraderie, in order to fully realize the intent of the novel that strived f or t he socialist c ommunity, it had to contemplate the relationship with the public readers more than anything else. Second, it has taken a look at the popularization strategy of love narrative and socialist community orientation. In the first part of 1920s, Shanghai of China was the central site for the East Asia socialist movement and Shim Hoon had the profound interests in the socialism even prior to his departure to China. In 「Phoenix」, the following work of 「The Lover of the East」 displayed more directly for the radical activism, class struggle and socialist movement lines of such proletariat youths. Consequently, Shim Hoon intended to present clear goal and direction to strengthen the practical nature of socialist Independence Movement while having certain distance from both nationalist and classism on the foundation of critical insight on the popular style in ‘narration of love’. In this point, as the desirable model of the socialist community that integrates the classes and races, 「The Lover of the East」 that realized the appearance of the ‘common lover’ in narrative terms has to be the work that demands attention from the novel world of Shim Hoon.