나의 젊은 조국 －1940년대 한설야의 ‘부권의식’과 ‘청년/지도자 서사’－

Abstract

From what viewpoint does ‘Han Seol-ya’s Kim Il-sung narrative’ in the liberation period need to be read? The suggestible topics at the entrance of this question are ‘youth’ and ‘paternity consciousness’. These topics were closely connected with the representation of youth, leader and nation in Han Seol-ya’s works. It is the reason that they should be regarded importantly in the place where his writings in the 1940s are read. These were tightly bound not only with ‘the narratives of father and son’ but also with Han Seol-ya’s own self-portrait. In this perspective, we should surely look back on this when discussing the writings not only after the liberation but also before the liberation. Such critical mind can be converted in the form of questions as follows. How can we explain the unusual interest that Han Seol-ya expressed in Kim Il-sung and young people? In the course of codifying Kim Il-sung narratives and making young people main characters in the stories, how did he try to give shape to these main agents? And at this time, which position did he locate himself in speaking act? Furthermore, how were ‘the narratives of 252 현대문학의 연구 44father and son’ written continuously before and after the liberation connected to ‘the narratives about Kim Il-sung and the youth?’ What characteristics that were expressed here did his ‘paternity consciousness’have and where was he able to find the logic and dynamic force to make himself grow into the real father at that time?Based on these critical inquiries, this paper attempts to have a bird’s-eye view of the locus of Han Seol-ya’s self/world perception in the period of ‘before and after liberation’, taking the writings that were written and published in the 1940s as main objects of discussion, and assess his mentality and desires connected with this. To enlarge further upon this point, this paper will broadly examine his texts before and after the liberation and conduct comparative analysis on correlations among these texts. And based on this, I attempt to reveal the methods in which Han Seol-ya restructured the life of Kim Il-sung in terms of literature and its uniqueness. Furthermore, I examine the conversion process of the paternity consciousness shown in the texts before the liberation, and particularly the methods in which this paternity consciousness was projected or metastasized to the youth/Kim Il-sung narratives after the liberation.