식민지 지식인의 갈등과 고뇌 그리고 허위의식

Abstract

A studying abroad is a course of learning through joining between two countries and cultures. And students studying abroad should accustom themselves to it's culture, language, living styles and so on. But they recognize that the original idea of studying abroad belong to their individual and national profits with their studying abroad. In the result of situation studying abroad, they experience on the stress of antagonistic relationships such as relation between assimilation and dissimilation, and between dependence and independence. And students can be called 'marginal man' who should experience on the hard learning courses of circulation between maladjustment and adjustment, or adjustment and maladjustment with experiencing on the special situation that the compulsive conformity and self conscious alienation between two cultures. I think that Joseph Joo(朱耀燮, 1902～1972)´s 『A Price of First Love(첫사랑값)』(1925～27), Kwangsoo Lee(李光洙, 1892～1950)´s 『Letters in Blood(血書)』(1924) need to be taken notice for the studying. These works include not only self-presentations of intellectuals who had studied in Japan, China, and Korea before and after the 3.1 Movement but also characters who had been suffered and agonized between the modern nationalism and the private consciousness. 『A Price of First Love』 is an incomplete frame medium-lenth story which recollects main character 'M' through his diary in which M gives up his Chinese female lover and comes back to his country but finally suicides by himself. 『Letters in Blood'』 is a short novel that a main character, 'I' refuse a Japanese woman's courtship and recollects the woman's death. These two novels pretty well show the mental agony of intellectuals who suffer from the problems on "how to live" in the real colonial lives decorated with cultural politics after the 3.1 Movement.