대륙의 주인은 누구인가? -한설야의 『대륙』에 나타난 현실인식

Abstract

This paper studies on the reality recognition of Han Seolya's The Continent. Han Seolya thought that the "Five-Race Harmony" and the "East Asian Cooperative Community" should be built on the equality and be admitted by the Chinese who were the hosts. He also wrote about the Koreans who even had no place to put their feet on in 'Manchukuo' which was completely opposite to the contemporary Manchuria discourse. In "Manchukuo" established by the Japanese invasion of armed forces, the Koreans were regarded as Japanese stooge by the Manchurians who were the owners of the original land, and they were regarded as only tools by Japanese. What Han Seolya recognized was that the Koreans had no place to put their feet on in Manchukuo. He also recognized that although the volunteer army was built as an anti-Japanese force, its continuous exploitation and tyranny put 30 million inhabitants of Manchuria in poverty and misery. For this reason, Zhang Xueliang who spin a cocoon around himself lost the qualification to be the host of the continent, although he had never been the host of the continent. Han Seolya thought that Zhang Xueliang was only a vagrant. He pointed out that the failure of anti-Manchukuo and anti-Japanese struggle was caused by the corruption, incompetence and depravity of Zhang Xueliang's voluteer army in about 1939. With this reality recognition, Han Seolya could never accept the "East Asian Cooperative Community" and the "Five-Race Harmony" which were the representative discourse of Japanese Empire. He thought that these discourses were wrong at the very beginning, and it was wrong to establish 'Manchukuo'.