역사적 트라우마와 식민지의 연속성 - 1965년 체제 이후의 김정한, 이호철 소설을 중심으로 -

Abstract

These days, a new reflection on Korea-Japan relations is needed and a review of the “1965 system” is requested. At this point, it is necessary to look at the many unresolved issues that remained after the Korea-Japan agreement, the historical trauma left to us and the continuity of post-colonialism. In this regard, this paper aims to closely explore the Kim Jung-han’s and Lee Ho-chul’s novels of the time. Kim Jung-han’s later novels, written in the ‘60s and ‘70s, contain a keen sense of criticism of the negative reality at the time. It also resisted forgetting or concealing a number of unresolved issues after liberation and the war. Among his later novels, it is necessary to re-examine the novels dealing with the problem of (new)-colonialism, as they reflect on the Korea-Japan relationship in a different way from other existing novels. Kim Jung-han seeks to reflect on historical memories and look at the remaining issues which is still working in the reality of Korea in the day, not only from the perspective of Koreans but also from the perspective of Japanese. Furthermore, by reviewing the Japanese representation of Lee Ho-chul’s feature novel “Return,” which appears different from Kim Jeong-han’s, he noted that the Japanese in Kim Jeong-han’s novels are different from the way other existing authors were recreated in Korean novels. Kim Jung-han’s series of novels is a work that expresses the writer’s thoughts on the neo-coloniality of Korean society and post-colonialism, which extends throughout Asia, through the eyes of the Japanese.