김현과 바슐라르—1970년대 김현의 번역과 현대시 비평

Abstract

Kim Hyeon have criticized the trend in which Gaston Bachelard was studied and quoted only in the literary aspect. Unlike the opinion that Bachelard had ‘converted’ to the study on the imagination after La psychanalyse de feu, Kim Hyeon stressed that the theory of Bachelard was the feat of combination of two different fields, that is, imagination and philosophy of science. The study on Bachelard by Kim Hyeon (1976) is a representative book which have shown his literary stand on Bachelard. After taking note of the method that Bachelard had understood the interrelation between different systems of scientific knowledge in a new way, Kim Hyeon introduced Bachelard through his concept, ‘the theory of Envelopment.’ The matchless status of Kim Hyeon in the study on Bachelard in Korean literary history is placed on ‘the concept of Envelopment’ which he translated on his own, and this concept was the key term of Jeong Jonghyeon in criticizing poetic literature. Moreover, it was this concept of ‘Envelopment’ when Kim Hyeon particularly used while reviewing two poets, who are representative of People Literature, Kim Suyeong and Kim Jiha at the bifurcation point of their literary evaluation.