사관에서 작가로－1900년대 후반 개신유학자들의 소설 구상을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this writing is to review a momentum and a process that the change of recognition on ‘a person who writes’ could appear while a fictitious value is adjusted, in the latter half of 1900s when a cultural system confirming a modern ‘writer’ started to form. The term such as ‘writer’, ‘works’ and ‘creation’ is a product of a literature and arts system that the modern age created. What makes new sentences was unfamiliar in the Confucian tradition, and it was necessary that the meaning of a novel or a falsehood is socially confirmed for appearance of a writer(a novelist) with a modern meaning. Since the Russo－Japanese War, the initial shape of a modern writer’s image started to appear as several forms. The renewed Confucians embodying Chinese literature among them started from a traditional denial theory of a novel. But while the modern pedagogy and overseas historical discourse are accepted, the educational utility of a novel was noticed to develop the national character. The thing that a critical discourse on ‘imperialism’ and ‘nationalism’ was translated around 1908 brought an important change in their novel conception. Especially, Shin Chae－ho encoded main contradiction of a reality as a problem of ‘empire－colony’ and discovered ‘race’ as a base of resistance, and the novel became one of strategic writing for restoring the national history. On the other hand, the process criticizing colony translation circumstances and a novel of Lee In－jik was connected to self－consciousness about what the history and novel are respectively deficient. As a result, the novel considered as the end stream of history was transposed as modern writing for realizing ‘the national character’. The falsehood considered as what distorts the truth in a Confucian world view receives a meaning that restores the national history and shows the national spirit. One type of a modern writer gauging novelization possibility of history could appear from a historiographer distinguishing right and wrong and recording the fact through this process.