정치 이데올로기의 배제를 위해 선택한 ‘생활자’의 지향점 - 염상섭의 「離合」과 「再會」를 중심으로 -

Abstract

Yeom Sang-seop is a relatively researched writer by various researchers. Nevertheless, his research on post-liberation novels has been relatively less studied because of the lack of fiction completion compared to pre-liberation novels. However, Since being reevaluated by Kim Jae-yong and Choi Hyun-sik, research on Yeom Sang-seop’s post-liberation novel has emerged from various perspectives. As an extension of this perspective, this study also seeks to examine Yeom Sang-seop’s post-liberation novel from the perspective of a “living person”. The purpose of this study is to analyze how Yeom Sang-seop tried to find the meaning of “living” out of the severe confrontation of political ideology that emerged after liberation. To this end, I would like to analyze the situation of the post-liberation paragraph and Yeom Sang-seop’s presentations at the time and how he is shaping it into a novel. Through this, we will reveal how Yeom Sang-seop reveals the meaning of life, which he has consistently emphasized in the novel, as a person in the novel after liberation. In addition, the characteristics of the characters in the novel shall be revealed through the analysis of the series of “Separation” and “Reunion” Yeom Sang-seop experienced many things during his one-year journey home after liberation. He did not engage in any literary activities while living in Manchuria, and various experiences after liberation are embodied in various works of fiction. However, Looking at his writings in various magazines during this period, he argues that literature should deviate from political ideology after liberation. Yeom Sang-seop experienced many things during his return home for more than a year after liberation. When he was living in Manchuria, he did not create his own music, but his experience of returning home after liberation was later portrayed as a novel. Yeom Sang-seop believes that after liberation, new literature should move away from inter-Korean political ideology and find its way out. For him, the right writer is to find the purpose of literature and portray the true life. This true life of a living person is revealed through Jang Han, the main character of the series of “Separation” and “Reunion”. Jang Han stayed in North Korea after liberation and moved to South Korea due to conflicts with Shin Sook to find stability in his life. Yeom Sang-seop tries to overcome the family breakdown caused by political ideology through the stabilization of the living. As Jang Han functions as a living person in the novel, the family recovers. This can be said that Yeom Sang-seop found a new direction for literary creation in his true life to overcome the chaotic situation caused by the confrontation of political ideologies of the time. His direction of creation of the novel will continue through the appearance of a living person revealed in other works in the future.