『갑오농민전쟁』의 구성분석 - 모더니즘적 기법을 중심으로

Abstract

Park Tae-won (1910-1986) is a writer who performed creative activities in all areas such as novellas, short stories, full-length novels, poems, and translations from the time he startedliterary career with poems published on The Joseon Literary Circles in 1926 to the time he died at the age of 78 in 1986. Since it is known that he lost even his oral statement ability since 1980, when part two the Gapoh Peasant War was published, his creation period amounts to 54 years. Park Tae-won is one of writers who could not be easily seen in our literary history in terms of the duration of his activities and the nature of his works that encompasses the heterogeneous spaces of South Korea and North Korea. In particular, Gapoh Peasant War, a socialist realism novel of Park Tae-won, who was a modernist full of the pride that "he pioneered new grounds in styles and forms too", provide a precious cueto reveal the transformation of our history of literature along with Park Tae-won's course as a writer, who went from modernism toward realism. Based on the judgment that the narrative technique used in the Gapoh Peasant War is a way to find the connectivity between Park Tae-won's work before and after his defection to North Korea, which are completely different in terms of characters and themes, this paper examined the composition of the Gapoh Peasant War. From the results of the analysis, it was identified that although the theme of "Gapoh Peasant War" does not deviate from the North Korean socialist realism such as the division of chapters, movements of spaces, and the utilization of diverse subjects of discourse such as the distinction between the descriptor and the focus speaker dualized the language of the novel to enable internal dialogues in the novel. The open language that is not self-completecan be said to show that Park Tae-won's language consciousness has not been absorbed in the North Korean literary theory, and modernist Park Taewon's technique experiment is still effectively in progress.