이태준 기행문 연구

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to study Lee Taejun(李泰俊)'s travelogue synthetically. Lee Taejun left some important travelogue at the crucial moments in the history. This proves that he had self-consciousness which is sensitive about the genre of travelogue. Lee Taejun's travelogue which were written in the colony era show 'disagreement of subject and object' clearly. New change is pursued in 'A Trip to Manchuria'. His compassion and sympathy for others and the interest in history and community appear in it. While his world of literature before the Liberation of Korea is close to pure literature and modernism literature, the inclination for world of progressive ideology is shown from the one after the Liberation of Korea. This transfiguration appears dramatically in 'Trip to Soviet Union.' Lee Taejun shows admiration and affirmation for socialism of Soviet Union consistently. There isn't any gap between subject and object in the book. In 'Moscow on Revolution Day' and 'Great New China' which were published later, his ideological inclination goes more steeply. In these books, he criticizes the United States of America, praises Chinese socialism, and reveals some symptoms of deification of Stalin and Mao Ze-Dong(毛澤東), and Kim Ilseong(金日成) etc. The fascination of Lee Taejun's literature is discontinued with those political accounts of trip, in the true sense of meaning.