횡보(橫步)의 문리(文理): 염상섭과 산(散)혼(混)공(共)통(通)의 상상

Abstract

Yeom Sang Sub’s pen name was Hoeng-Bo(橫步). It meant the way of walking sideways like a crab and drunken men. Hoeng–Bo was the opposite word of progress. We can call modern the era of progress. So we can understand his pen name was relativized to consider the modern progress. It suggests he wanted to show the another way of life style which was different from that of modern world, So Yeom became the –ist who is not a –ist and the writer we can not judge by rationality and objectivity. It was the era of progress in 1920s in Korea. When we compared him with his contemporary writer, Yeom’s works and past was very unique. He published his works in many ideological medias regardless of their ideologies and wrote his pieces in various styles without any preconception. Also, he changed argument into the consultation not a fight and thus made a free debate environment. So his past was the result of the imagination of interspersion and interminglement, sharing and commonness. His major work Sam-Dae was created by that imagination. There were characters in his works who had their special personalities and intermingled one another depend on their benefits. Although they conflicted because of generation gap, they eventually understood one another. That was the fate Yeom wanted to describe. And he planed to design the three works including Sam-Dae in trilogy and intended to show the similar aspects repeatedly. From the imagination of interspersion, interminglement, sharing and commonness, Hoeng-Bo, Yeom’s reason of text was originated.