해방기 세태소설의 한 양상－김말봉의 『가인의 시장』을 중심으로－

Abstract

Cain’s Market is a novel of manners that take lively the reality of Liberation period, and this story reappeared the paradoxical situation which was occurred in between social goal and real world by the description of social conditions simply. This story showed that the literature during the Liberation period did not to infiltrate into the ideology and self-criticism and the Liberation period’s double-sidedness of all stories that parallel imagery of plural incidents, and awaked people’s realism about social justice and critical insight about actual society in that period. In the history of Literature, this story put 1930’s paper novels characteristics on the Liberation period, and has a role of bridgehead to the 1950’s paper novels. Because thhe collapse of Colonial era did not guarantee the building of independent nation, the people’s in the Liberation period showed their chaotic real world deductively. This study considers with the story of Cain’s Market woman(people’s health movement and changes of main prostitution, politics(building of people’s nation and political dishonesty), and social(remove vestiges of Japanese imperialism and change to pro-Americanism). Im, Hwa who dealt negatively with novel of manners and Kim, Nam-chun who developed it positively emphasized on its’ social and historical characters commonly. Because to describe a custom of social conditions includes critical mind and crisis about everyday life, novel of manners that have revelation and criticism can be a detail social novel. With this reason, [Cain’s Market] can be a exact social novel and novel of manners in Liberation period.