종생 이면의 생에 대한 이야기 -이상, 「종생기」연구

Abstract

"Jongsaenggi" was written by Lee Sang before going to Tokyo and dying. In May 1937, "Jongsaenggi" was published at "Jog- wang". The novel of Jongsaenggi was introduced at magazine of "Jogwang" at similar time as notice of death of Lee Sang who died on April 17, 1937. Before dying, Lee Sang completed writing of "Jongsaenggi" to send it to magazine company and to give a hint of his own death through "Jongsaenggi" exquisitely. Lee Sang followed an intellectual's path until being an engineer of the construction department of the Japanese Government-General of Korea after graduating Gyeongseonggogong. Lee Sang lived difficult life from time of poor health immediately before dying. In the era of the Japanese rule in the Korean peninsula, Lee Sang wrote gloomy society to express a gap between ego and the world in self-conscious and decorative way. At expectation of death, Lee Sang needed spiritual world that could overcome his death. So, Lee Sang kept a theme of novel of 'love' until he died. Love took the lead in Lee Sang's free spirit. This study discussed "Jongsaenggi" that attempted to find out light of the rescue under situation of hopelessness. Just before death, Lee Sang described how to write down "Jongsaenggi" at the introduction. And, Lee Sang inserted a story of love with "Jeonghui". This study investigated reason why Lee Sang sticked to love just before death, and influence upon formation of values of his novel work. This was because "Jongsaenggi" was concentrated on love story after intention of writing. This study investigated causes of continuous research on Lee Sang literature despite of imperfect structure, and reexamined values of novel of "Jongsaenggi".