북한문학 속의 백석 Ⅰ -북한문학계의 평가와 1960년대 시와 시론을 중심으로-

Abstract

This thesis aims at identifying Back Suk, a North Korean poet. He had made his debut in North Korean literary circle and continued his literary activities since Liberation. He mainly translated Russian literary works and wrote poetry for children and then became obscure between the late 1950s and early 1960s after publishing several poems. Considering the attributes of his works, his obscurity is widely recognized to have been concerned with the change of North Korea. In other words, the shifting era to Juche ideology from socialistic realism coincided with the vanishment of a plethora of literary figures who went to North Korea, inclusive of Back Suk. This thesis includes his translated works, children poetry and poems he published to protect himself from North Korea, who typically employed richly indigenous dialects and folk tales to depict the sentiment of solitude and loneliness in his writing. In this regard, it will be greatly enthusiastic for researchers to appreciate his perspective and passion on poetry hidden in translated Russian poems and his pursuit of vernacular words and relics veiled in fairy tale poems. In fact, a few poems he wrote in the early 1960s reminds us of his pre-liberation literary style, which, nevertheless, seemingly didn't lead him to eminence. This thesis will also take a close look at the reviews on Back Suk made by North Korean literary circle as well as those altered in the mid-1960s. It is hoped that this thesis will pave the way for the culmination of the latter period of his literature which the division of Korea has kept in the dark.