재만(在滿)시기 안수길 소설 연구

Abstract

This thesis aims to study the main ideas expressed in the novels created by Ahn Soogil, while he was staying in China, in the period of Manchuria. And it also elaborates the characteristics of the works written by the Koreans in the Japanese colonial period. The novels of Ahn Soogil created In the period of Manchuria are honored as the vivid records of the migrancy and settlement of the Koreans in China and they are also regarded as the written reports of the Gando Convention. Ahn Soogil has lived in Longjing, Changchun as well as many other places in China for about twenty years, together with his families. Based on his experience in Gando Convention, many famous novels are created by him,Most of which focus on the problems that met by the Koreans, especially the Korean peasants, in struggling to live on in Manchuria and examines the laborious life led by them, such as the rice plant and the dawn. As the establishment of Manchuria, the politics and social environment began to deteriorate, so Ahn Soogil turned his eyes on the tuff living condition of the Koreans in China, he tries to expose as well as put forward his own view on the question that how the Koreans, as aliens, facing the transformation of the society, survive the hostile environment. In his novels,such as 「Mokchookgi」, 『Bukhyangbo』, Ahn Soogil describes the construction of the ‘ideal village’ and the ‘the beautiful second hometown’. In other words, these novels show the alteration of the subject consciousness, which means the shift of the writer’s angel of view in observing the survival of the Koreans in Manchuria. The alteration of the subjective consciousness shown in Ahn Soogil’s novels can be affirmed through his positive attitude towards China and the Chinese people. All the Chinese figures that show up in his novels, from the ruling class, such as the landowner and the government officials to the people from the bottom of society, such as the tenant peasants and the farm labourers, show their friendship to the immigrants, for example, they communicate with the Koreans in Korean, establish intimate relationship with them and try to learn the Korean cultures. The Chinese figures appear ingin 「Riceplant 」, 「Mokchookgi 」,『Bukhyangbo』are all this kind of people, which are different from that described in the novels created by Choi Suhae and Joo Yosup whose novels contain the Chinese persons who are dirty, mean, suspicious and inhuman. The conversion of their awareness towards the Chinese people is caused by many reasons, on one hand, the Koreans and Chinese began to understand and respect each other in the process of living together and they also realize that the relationship between them should not be hostile but harmonious, on the other hand, this is the unavoidable choice for the persons from both countries with the transformation of the society after the Manchuria was founded. What’s more, the conversation can also be confirmed from the description of the environment of Manchuria or China. The natural circumstance depicted in the novels of Choi Suhae and Joo Yosup are freezing, sordid and extremely rugged. In addition, the presentation of the environment and the description of the surroundings suggest the hardship undergone by the Korean immigrants, While, in Ahn Soogil’s novels, the uncultivated land is full of hope and human touch and it is the basis for a well-fed and well-clothed life. Although wild, it is the guarantee of the prosperous life if cultivated. Furthermore, as far as the homeless and miserable Korean immigrants are concerned, the land is the heaven-sent ground on which their ‘ideal village’ can be setup. The descriptions of the land in Manchuria in the novels written by Ahn Soogil embody the desire for settlement, which can be summarized by the concept ‘the spirit of a northern hometown’. ‘The spirit of a northern hometown’ penetrates throughout the whole novel of 『Bukhyangbo』which exposes how the Koreans settle down and live on in Manchuria. For the immigrant people from Korea to China, rice is their children even their lives. So when leaving their homeland, the Koreans bring the rice seed together with them, and in order to plant the rice, they reclaim the wasteland into paddy field for rice is not only the way of mak-ing their living but also the symbol standing for the integrity of the Korean. ‘the basics of farmers’, ‘the soul of rice farming’ appeared in 『Bukhyangbo』are the spiritual supports of the Koreans who treasure the rice as cherishing their children. The spirit of a northern hometown, taking ‘the soul of rice farming’ as the footstone, refers to the establishment of the ‘second hometown’in Manchuria, which means the spirit of a northern hometown is the representation of the willpower of the Koreans to settle down and build the national community in Manchuria.