전후세대의 ‘미적 체험’과 ‘자기번역’ 과정으로서의 시쓰기에 관한 일고찰

Abstract

This article aims to reconstruct the process of the writing a poem in Korean postwar generation through the concept of 'self-translation'. Generally, 'self-translation' is a translation of a source text into a target text by the writer of the source text. Whether it is a translation or a self-translation, there is a source text and target text. But the unique point of 'self-translation' as the main concept in this article is that the source text does not exist in the process of writing a poem. If more precisely speak, it exists and does not exist at the same time. Obviously it is a kind of contradiction. To explain the circumstances around the contradiction is the another purpose of this article. As we know well, the postwar generation in Korea had distinctive environment of education and culture. Most of them were bilinguals. They were born and educated during the Japanese colonial period. A lot of them have complained the difficulties about writing and reading in 'Hangeul', the Korean alphabet. We could infer based on that fact like this; the postwar generation suffered from writing and reading in 'Hangeul' immediately after 'Independence', but they gradually became accustomed to expressing in 'Hangeul'. But this inference is too simple. I want to pay attention in this paper is Kim Suyoung(1921~1968), a famous poet. In particular, I would like to note his essay 'A note of writing poem '(1966), because it has made us to think again about the process of writing poem in postwar generation. He confessed that the Japanese language was still involved in writing poem have not disappear. He argued that his poems were translated from Japanese, and the writing poem as a 'self -translation' is much better than being bound to the single, monolingual, national 'mother tongue'. We can realize the existence of Japanese which has concealed in the process of writing poem through the concept of 'self-translation', therefore more obviously can understand the nature of postwar generation's poetry.