해방기 김송 소설과 동질적 시간성의 감각

Abstract

This paper examines the narrative characteristics of Kim Song’s novels from the perspective of ‘temporality’. In Kim Song’s novels during the liberation period, public time is important for the fate of the nation, and various temporal strategies for looking to the future are revealed, and his works reflect the changes of his time almost instantaneously. He paid more attention to the moments of change that occurred within the community at the moment of liberation, and paid more attention to the collective regeneration of the ethnic dimension. He was also interested in the collective transformation of the ‘nation’ rather than the individual, and this artist’s consciousness is revealed through the meaning of ‘temporality’ in various works. With this in mind, this paper aims to examine the nature of public ‘temporality’ and its transformation in Kim Song’s works of fiction during the liberation period. In Chapter 2, I focused on the “People Without Arms” trilogy, noting that the various moments of temporality in the trilogy were successive, non-homogeneous periods. In Chapter 3, I examined the changes in the meaning of ‘past’ temporality, focusing on ‘Regeneration’, ‘The ideal woman of Parsi’, and ‘Jung Im-i’. The main themes were the disconnection from the ‘past’ represented by the Japanese colonial period and the search for meaning and overcoming of past suffering centered on the 38th parallel. Chapter 4 examined the ways in which legendary and historical transcendent temporality is imagined in ‘Hometown Story’ and ‘Longing’. This positioned the ‘nation’ in a transcendent time and encouraged readers to consider the nation as historically a priori and to have a homogeneous identity. In short, through Kim Song’s works, this paper examined the unique aspects of ‘temporality’ in Korean fiction during the liberation period. The liberation period was a period in Korea’s modern history characterized by disconnection and discontinuity. It is important to note that Kim Song used various strategies of temporality to create his works in the historical space of the liberation period, revealing his perception of reality and seeking alternatives.