신동엽 문학에 나타난 분단 극복의 상상력 연구

Abstract

In the 1960s, when the Korean Peninsula was divided, Shin Dong-yeop revealed his “Utopian orientation” for a unified homeland. While Shin was full of utopian aspirations in the 1950s, he lacked the historical consciousness and theoretical basis to plan them realistically. However, through the ideological appropriation of dynamics and anarchism in the 1960s, he developed his own historical perspective, the concept of the “foreground man,” and importantly, he secured a vision of a concrete utopia centered on neutralization and unification. Bloch asked for the removal of the degenerative elements of the “abstract utopia”—a vague aspiration—and advocated for moving toward a “concrete utopia” while affirming its utopian aspirations. For Shin Dong-yeop, the first land that enables a “concrete utopia” appears as the “static electrical zone.” Along with the metaphor of a “seed,” Shin Dong-yeop presents the concept of “foreigners” who plant seeds and cultivate fields. The “seed,” which lies on the ground of the “next generation,”—a negative reality in Shin Dong-yeop’s view of history—dreams of “heritance” as a utopia, has the status of Bloch’s “Ontologie des Noch-Seins.” In his prose work “The Poet Spirit,” “the foreground” and “seed” aim for “the ontology of existence that is not yet-to-be,” the starting point of the revolution toward utopia. The place where this “seed” will be planted is the “neutral zone” (unarmed zone). After the decisive experience of the April 19 Revolution in 1960, Shin Dongyeop developed an elevated historical consciousness, breaking away from his abstract utopia of the 1950s and moving toward the pursuit of a concrete utopia. In other words, for Shin Dong-yeop, neutralization and unification are the final destination of “conscious hope” (concrete utopia) based on utopian thinking, and the final revolution of history