이효석의 <푸른 탑>에 나타난 내선결혼의 전략 - 서양고전의 차용과 변용

Abstract

In the late colonial period, Lee, Hyo-seok wrote the novel in Japanese. He thought he could find a way out of difficulties confronting Korean literature borrowing the Japanese-language which was supposed to communicate with the world. He took the Irish literature as a precedent because in 1930’s Irish literature was regarded to reach the world-class, in spite of using English(colonial ruler’s language) as a creative language. In <Green Tower> Lee, Hyo-seok borrowed Celtic myths <Deidre>, celebrated for romantic love and tragic death. He intended to embody the universality and the peculiarity of integration between Korean and Japanese. He created a new heroine “Yoko” as a Japanese-resident in Korea resembling closely with Deidre. Yoko resisted a biased view about mixed marriage at the risk of her life and it aroused Youngmin from self-accusation. In that sense, it might be said that Superficial topics of <Green Tower> was completion of romantic love. But the writer never stayed in it. He tried to prove Equal relationships between Korea and Western. Min, Soh-hee played important role by showing the beauty of ‘Han-bok’ and herself. Splendid woman and costume in Korea which were admired by westerners stimulated a feeling of anxiety in Japan’s mind, moreover it aimed to reveal hypocritical behavior of Japanese concealed behind wearing Korean traditional costume. Therefore, the attempt to proof equal relationships between Korea and Western was intended to show equal relationships between Korea and Japan. Japanese as a creative language was needed to explain the writer’s intention to Japanese and citizens of the world. The most of the novel dealing with mixed marriage in 1940’s came to an end fruitlessly, but <Green Tower> came to an end successfully. In that sense it was a new strategy of Japanese-Korean marriage for the construction of new relation between Korea and Japan.