심훈의 농촌소설과 동아시아 촌치운동(村治運動)

Abstract

This paper looks at Sim-hun's rural novels by paying attention to the ideological sharing context of the intellectuals and Sim-hun in Northeast Asia in the early 1930s. In the late 1920s, intellectuals in Northeast Asia took the collapse of the rural economy as a matter of Western modern times. Japan's Murobuse Kōshin recognized the countryside as a place to realize alternative politics against Western material civilization. Murobuse was inspired by Liang Shu-ming's "Rural self-governing Movement(chon-chi movement)" in China and had ideological exchanges with him. Shim-hun devoured the works of Liang Shu-ming and Murobuse Kōshin, and in the process, he wrote a series of rural novels such as Yung-won-eui-m-iso, Jik-nye-sung(Nova) and Sang-rok-su(evergreen). He shows points of ideological exchange between Murobuse and Liang Shu-ming in these works. However, the local movement that Shim Hoon planned was involved in the policy of promoting rural areas of the Japanese Empire. However, the rural self-governing movement that Shimhun planned was involved in the policy of the agrarian promotion movement of the Japanese Empire. This is illustrated by the conflict between Park, Dong-hyuk's "rural Friendship Society(Nong-U-hwe)" and Kang, Ki-choon's "Rural Promotion Movement((Nongchonjinheunghwe)" in Sang-rok-su. Shim refuses to be included as a national device for the Japanese Empire, but also refuses to have an optimistic outlook that has no real possibility. The conclusion of the "Sang-rok-su" reveals Shim's agony amid the international dynamics of Northeast Asia, which enters the fascist system.