김수영 문학을 어떻게 이해할 것인가

Abstract

Interpreting Kim Su-Young's literature can be categorized into two major kinds: a social participation from the perspective of realism, and style and modernity recognition from the perspective of modernism. This categorization led us to the positive criticism as well as the negative one, which reflects well a traditional confusing criticism about his literature. It is true that there have been various efforts to unify this confusing criticisms, but they all turned out to be failure due to the lack of correct research direction. In fact, discussions on the Kim's literature have been useful to clarify his literal characteristics in one way or another. However, we need to study more details about his literature, not a partial way but a wholistic one. In my judgement, a correct approach to his literature should be focused on his attitude on the literature. In particular, his consistent interest in translation and philosophy should be studied more carefully. In this study, I argue that his concern on the translation and philosophy developed his ontological attitude in his poetic works, and this ontological attitude was based on Heidegger's philosophy. In many ways his literature was influenced by the basic characteristics of the ontological philosophy and thus, I claim that any future research on Kim's literature should be focused on it. This correct research direction will ultimately contribute to the advancement of the future literature.