1920년대 한⋅중 문예논쟁시기 유기석의 아나키즘문예인식에 대한 재고

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to research Yu Kiseok’s views and cognitive characteristics on literature and art. Yu Kiseok (1905-1980) was an Korean anti-Japan independence activist and anarchist who had been active in China. In the early and middle 1920s, Yu Kiseok was influenced by anarchism through the exchanges and communication with Korean anarchists in China and Chinese anarchists, and began to pay attention to anarchism literature and art. Later, influenced by Kropotkin’s and Tolstoy’s literary thoughts, in the late 1920s he participated in the literary debates between anarchism and marxism in Korea and China and published a number of articles to clarify his unique views on literature and art. This paper investigates Yu Kiseok’s opinions and views on literature and art from three aspects: the subject attribute, the social attribute and the essential attribute, deeply explaining the equality consciousness and the public, the resistance consciousness and social utility, the life consciousness and individuality, and further extracts the reasonable factors to discuss the significance of them. Generally speaking, Yu Kiseok’s opinions and views on literature and art have the following special historical significance. Firstly, the “subjectivity of literature and art”, the life consciousness and the emphasis on the importance of individuality reflected the independence and originality of literature and art. It is directly related to the essence of literature and art, and gives us quite a few enlightenments that enables us to understand them more deeply. Secondly, he integrated class consciousness and ideology into literature and art, and emphasized the resistance and struggle of literature and art against imperial oppression, which has very important practical significance. Thirdly, his opinions and views on literature and art made a certain contribution to enhancing the vitality and combat effectiveness, enriching the literary theories at that time. This paper hopes to provide some reference for a more comprehensive understanding of Yu Kiseok and his views on literature and art, and objectively evaluate the significance and value of his anarchism literary thought in the history of Korean and Chinese literary criticism in the 1920s.