겨울 공화국의 소설 읽기 - 이선영의 1960~70년대 당대비평을 중심으로

Abstract

As part of the work to organize and evaluate Lee Seon-young’s literary research and critical activities, this article focuses on criticism of contemporary novels in the 1960s and 1970s. I took the method of tracking the three volumes of reviews published during this period by placing them in chronological order. He crossed the boundary between academic research and field criticism simultaneously. Examining his early writings will be a process of examining how his literary perspective and orientation germinate and develop through interaction with the contemporary literary scene. Lee Seon-young’s criticism began with his fascination with the outsider-like rebellion of existentialist literature, and later developed and expanded into interests in alienation and participation, historical consciousness, and realism. His critical writing, influenced by academic writing, was expressed through rigorous application of concepts in the analysis of works. Lee Seon-young chose a realist methodology based on the utility perspective that literature contributes to human life. However, he always resisted having realism narrowly cut and defined and applied to his analysis of works. He maintained a flexible theory of realism and actively participated in the dismantling of the boundaries between realism and modernism within the national literature camp in the early 1990s. Resistance to the schematization of realism can be seen throughout Lee Seon-young’s criticism of the 1960s and 1970s.