『천변풍경』의 세 개의 판본과 박태원의 창작과정에 대한 고찰

Abstract

Scenes from Chonggye stream, which is a major work of Park, Tae-won, is a work that originally integrate two literary works published in magazines. In 1936, he published the original Scenes from chonggye stream and in 1937, he published the sequel of Scenes from Chonggye stream in 1938, he published a revised book entitled Scenes from Chonggye stream which incorporates both works. The discussion up to now has been centered around the book Scenes from Chonggye stream and almost no attempt has been made to distinguish between ‘original’, ‘sequel’, and ‘revised’. However, since the three editions were interconnected and independent, they need to be compared in more detail. The original Scenes from Chonggye stream was the text that attract most critics attention and most highly appreciated. The original itself was an independent text, and the work had a noticeable characteristic of ‘tragedy’ colors. The work covers the period from spring 1935 to early summer, and modernist technique ‘camera-eye’ was mainly used. The original Scenes from Chonggye stream depicts various people struggling to survive in Kyungsung, which is a city that rapidly transformed into a modern city. One the other hand, the sequel of Scenes from Chonggye stream shows a significant change in the narrator’s intrusions, thematic consciousness, and the characters. Since the sequel of Scenes from Chonggye stream is a sequel, it has an independent character as it is connected with the previous original story. The narrator had to kindly explain the situation ahead because even a reader who did not read the orignal had to be able to read and understand the sequel. Therefore, unlike the narrator of the original watching the situation calmy at a certain distance, the narrator of the sequel intends to actively intervene in the situation. The sequel of Scenes from Chonggye stream starts from early summer, just after the end of the original, to late winter. Combining original and sequel take one year to cycle, which is an important feature of Scenes from Chonggye stream. However, it seems that the process of unification of original and sequel into one homogeneous text seems not so easy. if the tragic atmosphere was strong in original, sequel became a somewhat bright work. The book has been modified in the direction of revising the original centered on the atmosphere of the sequel.