박태원 소설에서의 근대와 전통‘합리성’에 대한 인식과 ‘신체제론’ 수용의 문제를 중심으로

Abstract

This research treats the novel of Pak Taewon between 1937-1945. Against the Pak Taewon's novel of this time the negative evaluation is most. The contents which the evaluation is principal with afterwords is same ; ‘the failure of modernism', 'psuedo-post-modernism', 'lack of asthetic tension', 'superficial recognition about modernity' etc. This means he as modernist was not through, and finaly failed to overcome the contradiction between 'modernity' and 'tradition'.But I think he was understanding the limit of 'modernity' quite accurately. It was the limit of 'rationality' to him. The works which reflect this well are <債家(A rented house)>, <偸盜(A thief)> etc. The critical recognition of rationality is not suddenly formed in this time. It was being started from middle of 1930's already. <소설가 구보씨의 일일(A day of Mr. Gubo as a novelist)> is a good example.This changes a lot at around 1940. The new colonial policy so called '新體制‘ caused an effect. He wrote pro-japanese novel in this time. <아세아의 여명(Dawn of Asia)>, <군국의 어머니(A Mother of Military State)> are good example. He accommodated ‘新體制’ as criticism of rationality. He could not find the subject which overcome the contradiction of modern time. In his novel the old people appear frequently, and they symbolize the 'tradition'. But they are not the 'subject' which overcome the contradiction of modern time. They are just only awaken the limit of modernity. This result clealy showed a lack of understanding of modernity. Pak Taewon could not tell the diffenence between 'colonial-modernity' and 'universal modernity'.