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Abstract

A novel that reflects precious experience of a writer after liberation, <The Faint Lamplight> is a work that has received the most attention in the world of Heo Jun’s work. The purpose of this study was to reveal that it was not only the sense of balance revealed in the content, but also the effect of the narrative strategy that reproduces reality at a distance that allowed this work to maintain the calmness that was not engulfed in emotion. At the time of announcing <The Faint Lamplight>, Heo Jun stated that he could not agree with other writers’ perceptions of reality and creative attitudes regarding the evaluation of this work. The evaluation was confirmed by analyzing the Joseon literature conference and criticism. The difference in the perception of the liberation period is revealed in the following aspects in the narrative strategy that constitutes the journey of return in <The Faint Lamplight>. The main character of <The Faint Lamplight> observes and describes the scenery of return while maintaining a distance from the position of the witness. Unlike other liberation novels that reveal the scars of the Japanese colonial period centered on the story of a major character, this work is structured to bring the stories of other characters into his journey while minimizing the protagonist’s narrative. This can be summarized as a structure in which another person’s narrative is inserted into the experience of the narrator, and it is characteristic in that a key character appears indirectly in the story. This is a method of indirectly reproducing reality while maintaining a distance without revealing direct judgment about the object. In this way, 「The Faint Lamplight」 visualizes the lives of ordinary people who have suffered the hardships of liberation on the road to their return. This study is meaningful in that it supplements the research trend that has been somewhat repeated in major issues. The main characters, the boy and the grandmother, are not viewed as arrangement or complementarity. It was newly discovered that these people had a common function as messengers. It was confirmed that the return reproduced in the work has meaning as an experience of becoming one with the people through a sense of solidarity. In addition, the structure of ‘narrator-communicator-story’ discovered during the analysis of narrative strategy is a characteristic found in other works of Heo Jun, and it is expected that it will serve as a reference point for future study.