작가들의 전쟁 체험 수기 연구–동일 소재 소설과의 대비를 중심으로–

Abstract

This paper is intended to discuss as to how traumatic experience of Korean War has become narrative as two major genres: memoirs and novels, and how relation between above 2 genres is expressed. Existing studies, which primarily targeted only officially edited memoirs, have their limitations that are unable to approach political meaning of texts as they omitted what are lost "not written". However, this paper intends to identify differences between texts of memoirs and novels by cross-reading them and based on this to expose dynamics of double-genre writing by highlighting novel texts that have been exposing various individual experiences and political pursuits beyond official discourse different from stereotyped Anticommunism narratives of memoirs. There are many cases than we expected: that authors who wrote memoirs of the war re-produced novels based on their memoirs. Among them, this paper primarily describes following novelists: Park Gye Ju, Choi Jung Hee and Kim Gwang Ju. In addition, this paper attempts to find distinctive differences between writing of memoirs and novels from corresponding authors and then categorizes them into 'Politics of layout', 'Politics of concealment' and 'Politics of identification'. Those 3 authors exposed their own views on Korean War as following: Park Gye Ju, who was the remaining party during 3 months under communists’ reign and provided labor for them criticized the government in connection with treatment of labor givers to the communists, and Choi Jung Hee, who was under same situation as Park Gye Ju, concealed and removed conflicts inside the nation during the war and Kim Gwang Ju, who was a hiding party, highlighted various experiences of Korean War from politician’s to lower class people’s. Consequently, these authors are believed to have realized suppressed narrative desire through novel writing. They appeared sometimes as self-justification or confession of clandestine emotion which were suppressed, or as blame or antagonism against the government or politicians. From this point of view, these novels have characteristics of 'Supplementary text' for memoirs. In other words, this paper not only re-affirms that memoirs are 'Manipulated stories' but also looks into memory of multi-reality and multi-layered desire of narration for war.