박경리 『토지』와 삼일운동

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study various features of the Samil Movement in Pak Kyong-ni's novel Toji. For this purpose, this paper clarifies narrative strategies of Toji and then studied characteristics of Donghak Movement in his works. Through this, Toji is dealing with the Samil Movement on a continuous line with the Donghak Movement and revealed that the work is developed in a way that constantly raises questions about the legitimacy of the Samil Movement due to the feature of narrative. In this paper, the narrative aspects of the Samil Movement were classified into three dimensions and their characteristics were analyzed. The first narrative aspect is to automatically remember the Samil Movement when thinking about a particular person. This is not an attempt to describe the Samil Movement from a macrospective viewpoint, but an attempt to visualize it through the individual experiences of many people who have experienced the Samil Movement. The description of the Samil Movement was 48 times in total, and the description by the first narrative aspect was 20 times. The second narrative aspect is to evaluate and analyze the performance and limitations of the Samil Movement. Through the mouth of the narrator, who is said to be the character of the author, or the people in Toji, the performances and limitations of the Samil Movement were evaluated and analyzed in various ways. This description by the second narrative aspect was 23 times in total, and can be divided into negative evaluation, positive evaluation, evaluation in international situation, and analysis of relationship with Donghak movement. The third narrative aspect is the case in which the Samil Movement gives the character a clear turning point in memory. There were eight times in total. Although this was not large, it shows that the Samil Movement can be a criterion for sharing the memory time much more clearly and significantly than the specific year of 1919. In addition, in this article, I analyzed the narrative aspect of Samil Movement in the work in relation with nationalism and examined it in relation with the political discussions which come out more often from the third part of Toji.