근대 사적 공간과 문학의 내면 공간

Abstract

In explaining the modern Korean literature, the personal space should be considered. In the western literature, the personal space appeared while the living space was divided and relocated with the concepts of family, the relations between husband and wife, and the child, which was formed by the development of the bourgeoisie in 19 century. In Choseon Dynasty of the early modern era, however, the situations were different. In Choseon Dynasty, the concepts of ‘modern’ and ‘culture’ and the change of educational system caused the change of living conditions, resulting the appearance of personal space in the modern Korean literature. The main space was the dormitory, especially the boarding house. The dormitory functioned as the personal space, but it had some limitations in that it was the controlled space with regulations and rules as it was basically the common living space. In the other hand, the boarding room, which was obtained under certain conditions of contract, was related to the modern literature as the personal space retaining some physical and psychological distance. The rented room, which was differentiated from other space of the boarding house, was the independent space meaning the resident's personality. In the boarding room, the lonely student away from home was introspected and the intimacy with the intimate was exchanged intellectually and emotionally. The students were reading Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, or Gorky etc. or writing diary, letter, or novel. And thus the boarding room was the main space where the spirit and literature of the students were formed. The students living in this space were under the situations that they could not go back to their hometown. The hometown, where it was impossible to obtain the independent space like the boarding room, was not familiar and acquainted space any more. It was the space of past and the place where they could not go back. Because the space in which they were born and their family was living was exposed under the eyes of everybody and it was changed into the space emotionally unfamiliar with them.