청춘의 표상과 감성의 정치 — 해방기 이봉구 소설을 중심으로

Abstract

This study investigates the way that the subject representation of youth rearrangeshistorical time space in the area of sensibility targeting Lee Bong-Gu's novels inLiberation Period. This is a trial to find out the meaning of romantic identity seenin Lee Bong-Gu's novels. In Lee Bong-Gu's novels, the youth is a criterion to optimistically expect the futuretime by rearranging the memory before the Liberation and justifying the past. Especially,the literary pure essence of youth works as a standard evaluating the history andtestifying the times. Besides, Lee Bong-Gu emphasizes the esprit as the spirit ofnew youth after the Liberation. As the mentalities of youth, the esprit means thespirit of literature in new age. Like that, the sensitive subject of youth is both amoral mechanism proving the moral justification of writers in Liberation Period andan instrument for political practice. In Lee Bong-Gu's novels, the youth's romantic appearance is visually expressedas some cultural objects like coffee shop, poem and liquor, and romantic date. Particularly, the romantic date is an opportunity to boost the literary sensibility andan evidence of youth. At this t ime, the lover is as the 'Madonna' existing for literaryideal, that is, the ideological, sublime object. Romantic date is utilized as only theliterary equipment mortgaging the pure essence of youthTherefore, in Lee Bong-Gu's novels, the youth can be considered as an estheticethos to keep the self-justification and the self-identity facing new realities of liberationand cold war.