김동리 문학사상의 형성과 혜화전문

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate truth formed in the process of developing literary activities in exchange with those who graduated from Hyehwa College made by mediating Baeksi Beombu and the background of connections with them from 1933 to 1945 fundamentally. The key feature his literary ideas have is that the problems of human existence(death/exclusion), religion(shamanism) and the nation are organically combined. This literary characteristics are revealed clearly, considering specific time and space belonging to persons who he met, a human resources system in Hyehwa College, relevance of nationalist tradition and literary trends and limitations of performance which literary tradition created from this has at the same time. Hyehwa College is a school established with a purpose of professional training for Buddhist studies and oriental literature, and has interdisciplinary, curriculum and professors·instructors fitting for the purpose. Because of this, those who graduated from Hyehwa College had basic literacy on buddhism, oriental philosophy and literature, so literary tradition to pursue oriental(Joseon) beauty has been formed. Under Japan's oppressive colonial rule, the research for tradition can be seen to be based on nationalism and anti-imperialism by default in terms of a part of efforts to establish Korean identity distinguished from Japan(the West). However, this implicated the possibility of corresponding to Japan's colonial policy constantly due to the non-historicity which a way of building Korea's unique tradition had. This contradiction appeared in Kim, Dong-Lee's literature equally. In that Kim, Dong-Lee's literary(ideas) also assumes shamanism as oriental(Korean) unique religion and suggests a way of overcoming modernity(Japan /the West) through this, it can not be free from these contradictory situations. However, his literary aims ultimately to overcome fear and alienation(alienation/disconnection) for death from the experience of modernity. In that Japan(the West)'s imperialism also is a result of the contradiction which reason-centered view of the world caused in modern time, to overcome Japan(the West) can be to get over modernity. This makes existentialism and nationalism be organically combined to overcome modernity in Kim, Dong-Lee's literary ideas. Such literary ideas let Kim, Dong-Lee and those who graduated from Hyehwa college create Joseon youth literary association(1946) with right-wing side focusing on nationalism line after liberation, and function as a ideological foundation to do intense ideological debate with Joseon literature alliance with left-wing side focusing on it. This is derived in that the pursuit of oriental(Joseon) beauty which they oriented consistently during the colonial period basically has a characteristic as pure literature to deal existential problems of human beings and national literature of overcoming Japan(the West) violent imperialism at the same time. This point can be a rationale base that Kim, Dong-Lee and those who graduated from Hyehwa College emphasized right-wing ideological justification in ideological debate with left-wing writers, and a core ideological basis in securing right-wing literature in the South where left-wing forces were erased completely.