민중의 자발성과 지도의 문제* - 최명익의 중기 소설 연구

Abstract

This thesis is to study on the latter term works of Choi, Myung-Ik who was an influetial writer in the 1930's Korean modernism fictions. At that time, Choi had produced unique works focused on the intellectual's agony to modernity of colonial Chosen(Korea) and the novelistic figuration to the motive of getting on a train or car. The motive was composed of ‘speed’, ‘driver’ and ‘fellow passangers’ that Choi regarded as representations of moderinty or colonial modernity. Especially ‘fellow passangers’ meaned the colonial people who could think and act spontaneously even if they were taken away to modern. This spontaneity of the people was the main theme of Chio's novel after Korean Liberation(1945). In 『Mack-ryung(맥령)』, Choi showed an intellectual to discover the spontaneity of peasants, who instinctively understand the class interest to land. And in 『Che-il-ho(제일호)』, he showed the heroic laborers who spontaneously effort to produce the first tractor engine. Even if they received material and moral support from the Chosen Communist Party and the army of USSR, the first engine they produced was the result of their creative earnestness. The engine was Chosen type that fitted Chosen agricultural land, not USSR type. It was this spontaneity that Choi tried to show more essential to socialistic revolution over the leader of communist party in his medium term works.