균열과 봉합의 서사, 『월남망국사』 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to reveal the characteristics of Fall of Vietnam as the narrative of cracks and sutura through the analysis several editions of Fall of Vietnam and the secondary text related to that. Fall of Vietnam is a book published in Chinese in 1905 by Liang qi-chao(1873~1929) after hearing Phan Boi Chau(1866~1940)'s words. After that, Hyeonchae(1886~1925) translated it into a mixed style of writing Korean with Chinese characters in 1906, followed by Ju Si-gyeong(1876~1914) and Lee Sang-ik(1881~?) in 1907 to translate it into the Korean style. Judging from the fact that three versions were published within a short period of time, we can guess what the ripple effect was in Korea at that time. Fall of Vietnam was banned from publication in 1909 by Japan. There are no traces of books that dominated the reading scene in Korea and China in the early 1900s in Japan at that time. The content of the book, which criticizes France as the Empire, did not attract the interest of Japan as a novel or a history book. This symbolically shows that the path to political solidarity is not easy even though using the same Chinese character. Fall of Vietnam was read in the late Korean language and even during the Japanese colonial period, when publication was prohibited. Reading Fall of Vietnam led to a passion for patriotism and enlightenment. However, Fall of Vietnam was not necessarily read in this way. It was read at the level of sharing the sorrow caused by the loss of the country, and it was also read at the level of finding the cause of the collapse of nation. It was also read in terms of discussing differences in colonial rule. It contains the defeatism that we cannot overcome the colonial rule of the empire on our own.