이광수 소설의 ‘사랑’ 형상화와 자전적 언술행위

Abstract

Lee, Gwang－su is the author who fictionalize his own experience in various works, including the novel of which the matter of love is described. We can find repetitive motives related to the theme of love, which is based upon the narrative structure that the hero encounter the matter of choosing one between his love and his duty on the whole community. The hero, such as ‘I’ in “A Letter in Blood” ( 혈서 , 1924) and Hang－mok(항목) in “The Leader”( 선도자 , 1923) experience severe inner conflict to choose between his personal love and his business for independence of the colonial Joseon. The author maximize tragic characteristics of the fate of main character and his lover in the former, and divide the narrative into two parts, subscribing the personal background of Yi Hang－mok which the reality have an edge on the story and the love story with Seon－kyong which the fictional trait is involved mainly in the story. This setting－up of narrative is related to the experience of the author. Yi really had severe inner conflict to choose one between his lover Yeong－suk(영숙) and his business and his fair such as An, Chang－ho(안창호) in a provisional government in Shanghai. He wrote his inner conflict in the letter to the Yeong－suk in 1921. He eventually returned to the colonial Joseon from Shanghai, and many people criticize him for betray his fairs in Shanghai. He shows his apology for his fairs and gratitude for his wife simultaneously in the essay “The Appreciation and the Apolgy”( 감사와 사죄 , 1922). After this, he published “A Letter in Blood”( 혈서 , 1924) and “The Leader”( 선도자 , 1923), and he embodied his experience reversely. The love motif in “The State of Enlightenment beyond passion”( 애욕의 피안 ) is more fictionalized and signified psychologically. Kang, Yeong－ho(강영호) who is autobiographical character suicide for protecting purity of love with Hye－ryon (혜련). And the narrator criticize this behavior as lack of harmony of intellect, emotion, and vollition. We can find the problem of harmonizing psychological elements is the main interest of the author in the early and the middle of 1930s, as the narratar of “the Soil”( 흙 ) criticize heroin Jeong－sun(정선) for the same reason. The interest of psychological elements is connected to the influence of the philosophical works of the neo－Kantists such as Tomonaga Sanjuro. The theme of love is generally described in his latter work “Love”( 사랑 , 1938). Lee metaphorized love as purity and honesty, based upon his impression his friends in The Seventh－Day Adventist Church such as Kim, Chang－se(김창세). Kim introduced The Seventh－Day Adventist Church to the author, and he studied the Bible with the minister Conger in Shanghai. Lee called to rememberance this experience in the essay “The Seventh－Day Adventist Church and I”(1938). This impression is projected to the heroin Sun－ok(순옥), who is the believe of The Seventh－Day Adventist Church and is the metaphor of the love itself. She shows the love for all people and this attuide is signified the true love in the story. The author did not just his experience of love into the character, but also metaphorized his idea of love through the idea and behavior of heroin.