4.19의 세대론과 안수길 소설 속 예외상태의 주체 - <백야>를 중심으로 -

Abstract

This paper attempts to reveal the characteristics and meaning of the 4.19 narrative in Ahn, su-gil’s novels in the 1960s, including <White Night>. For intellectuals and college students in the 1960s, 4.19 was established as a just new generation’s resistance to the negative old generation. Conversely, what is emphasized in <White Night> is not intergenerational clashes or conflicts. In <White Night>, 4.19 is the experience of homogenization of various generations in the state of exception from the Japanese colonial era, and is narrated with the deprivation of political citizenship due to the violence of sovereign power and the experience of naked life. The various characters in <White Night> form a family-like relationship as defectors from North Korea, caring for and solidarity with each other. In particular, through the history of 30s intellectual linking the old and new generations, <White Night> places 4.19 as an extension of the youth movement that has resisted the sovereignty during the liberation and Korean War. This perspective, which appears not only in <White Night>, but also in Ansu-gil’s 4.19 narrative in the 1960s, explores the possibility of the solidarity of naked life in the exceptional state of modern Korean history. In <Nameless>, <Sewn Suit Pants>, and <Tamok>, 4.19 is evoked by the memory of the father - the Japanese colonial period - North Korea (or Manchuria) and the homogeneity of the son - 1960 – Seoul. In Ahn, Su-gil’s short stories of the 1960s, which narrates the reality of 4.19 and modern Korean society, the father-son generation appears to be in solidarity or sharing common memories rather than conflicting.