1920년대 소설의 다층적 존재 양상과 의미 - 기생 강명화 정사 사건의 전유 양상을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The 1923 love affair of Kang Myung-hwa, a Korean geisha, provides a meaningful clue to understanding the various perspectives and desires that collide between tradition and modernity amid the spread of a new love culture. The aspect of novels about Kang Myung-hwa's case was diversely done inside and outside the literary world, sometimes at the boundary. In particular, Hyeon Jin-geon's 「Nostalgic Stare」 and 「Absolute Lie」, Lee Hae-jo's popular novels including 『『(Yeoui-gwi)KangMyunghwasilgi』, and Noh Ja-young's 『『A Statue of Gold of Infinite Love』』 becomes an interesting text that shows the different aspects of novelistic appropriation of Kang Myung-hwa's affair. Each work accepts the love affair with Kang Myung-hwa but appropriates it in its own way, and shows interesting differences depending on media differences or reader strategies. Hyeon Jin-geon's 「Nostalgic Stare」 and 「Absolute Lie」 appealed to the intellectual readership through the magazines 『『After the ruins』 and 『Gaebyeok』, while Lee Hae-jo's 『『(Yeoui-gwi)KangMyunghwasilgi』』 and other Ttakji-bon popular novels were mainly used by the traditional public. Roh Ja-young's 『『A Statue of Gold of Infinite Love』』 was a work targeting the student readership existing in between. These characteristics serve as a way to confirm the social and cultural meaning of the love affair with Kang Myung-hwa, a gisaeng in the 1920s, as well as the various views and perspectives of contemporaries on it. It also provided a concrete opportunity to examine in three dimensions the aspects of multi-layered literature that existed in and out of the literary world in the 1920s and on the border.