홍석중의 <황진이> 연구- 주인공의 현실인식 변모 양상을 중심으로

Abstract

<Hwang Jin-Yi> by Hong Seok-Jung contains important meaning on inner change of North Korea's literature and literary exchange of South and North Korea. This novel has the strong power to attract the readers of South Korea though it is reflected the idea of North Korea appropriately. The main driving forces of this novel are individual love in question and to pursuit happiness although it has strong voice of criticism of irrational social reality. It is a meaningful change which compares with the existing North Korea's novels are captured with the logic of socialism. However, it's clearly exposed the critical points of various researches because of the prejudice of North Korea's novel. The mistakes which evaluate the novels with the circumference context rather than concrete text analysis. But, now the inductive method is required for see the change aspect of North Korea's literature with analysis of the work itself. In this paper, therefore, focuses on the change of reality recognition of 'Hwang Jin-Yi(heroin in the novel)' and analyze the concrete meaning of this novel. <Hwang Jin-Yi> searches for the change procedures of reality recognition of main character in actual life realized, with these steps, writer reflects the era of 'Hwang Jin-Yi' lived and our reality. In this novel, 'Hwang Jin-Yi' is a vivid woman who has self-consciousness. She goes through many social positions - 'the only daughter among many sons in noble Hwang's family → Gi-Saeng(singing and dancing girl who is cultured in ancient Korea / it's neutral position between ruling class and lower class) → freeman' - and her reality recognition had changed according to her social positions. 'Hwang Jin-Yi' who is the only daughter among many sons in noble Hwang's family has romantic and abstract reality recognition. Especially, the eyes of writer who catches delicately the internal desire of 'Hwang Jin-Yi' has universality which union the difference ideal gap of South and North Korea. The reality recognition of 'Hwang Jin-Yi' as Gi-Saeng is expressed as division; she satirizes the noble's hypocritical desire and despairs herself with social position as Gi-Saeng. Such crack are sutured as love with 'Nomi(hero in this novel)'. The tragic and pure love between 'Nomi' and 'Hwang Jin-Yi' is compared with the hypocritical love and doesn't have the meaning of revolutionary love as ideal concept. Like this, individual love and desire are rarely reveal in North Korea's novels which forbid the inside and desire of existence, so this novel is very meaningful to look for communication South and North literature. 'Hwang Jin-Yi' as a freeman who lefts the human society doesn't mean of escape from reality but rises above the world after doing her duties in her life. It's impossible to overcome the hypocrisy and falsity of noble class as Gi-Saeng. It's a transcendence beyond the dichotomy like as 'good vs evil', 'truth vs false' and 'ruling class vs lower class'. 'Hwang Jin-Yi' doesn't overcome the contradiction of her era. But it doesn't matter. It can become a signal of new era because 'Hwang Jin-Yi' considers her problem as periodic meaning in her era. Probably, the significance of literature which captures the state of tension between existence and real world is to reflect the real life's meaning. Such a point, <Hwang Jin-Yi> by Hong Seok-Jung asks us who lives in real world which the capital logic governs what is the meaning of life, with heroin 'Hwang Jin-Yi' who tries to overcome the periodic dominant concepts though she couldn't escape the false era.