1950년대 유치환 문학에서 ‘신’과 ‘휴머니즘’의 관계- 시, 산문, 아포리즘(短章)을 중심으로 -

Abstract

According to the existing interpretation that divides the Yu Chi-hwan’s literary world into three periods, the 1950s were the mid-term period in which interest in real life and society is marked. However, the biggest feature seen in Yu Chi-hwan’s literature from shortly after the Korean War to the end of the 50s is the emergence of an idea about “God.” Yu Chi-hwan’s literature began in the 1930s by asking questions about the existential meaning of human life. And the consciousness of the problem of “life” was refracted with a sense of awareness and nihilism about finiteness by hitting the wall of “infinite”. But since the 1950s, his literature has changed the question of human existence, and the ‘God’ concept is the trigger for that change. Unlike “God” in religious meaning, Yu Chi-hwan’s “God” is not transcendent. He called the will, the mimd and the ability to make nature exist “God”. With the emphasis on “God”, it has changed markedly in Yu Chi-hwan’s literature. The reason for human existence is beyond the scope of modern humanism, and within the scope of “God = Nature” the hierarchy between “humane” and “nature” is denied. At this time, Yu Chi-hwan confronted the mindset of separating humans from nature and giving humans an existential advantage, and continued writing based on existential equality in the perception of “God = Nature”. Therefore, despite writing poems about the same natural object, the early poems and poems of the 1950s have very different aspects, and they show a distinctly different attitude in their perception of finiteity or their perception of death. For this reason, the 1950s literature of Yu Chi-hwan’s should be reinterpreted in a context different from modern humanism or existentialism, and should be evaluated in a broad sense in relation to Oriental thought.