무스잉(穆時英)의 스파이 소설「G No.Ⅷ」연구 一 장르적 수용과 변주를 중심으로

Abstract

This study analyzed what unique literary world Mu Shi-ying's creative tendency combined with the genre characteristics of spy novels, using Mu Shi-ying's spy novel G No.Ⅷ, which was famous as a representative writer of the New Sensory in Shanghai in the 1930s. What characteristics of the genre of spy novels were accepted by Mu Shi-ying and what variations it caused in the literary world of Mu Shi-ying were largely divided into two parts. First, Mu Shi-ying accepted the genre characteristics of spy novels of mutual deception and dual identity and cast the shape of “Invisible Man in the Crowd”, hiding himself in a special urban space called Shanghai. The second is a review of the genre variations that Mu Shi-ying attempted. Unlike contemporary spy novels, which inspired patriotism and nationalist ideology through the act of setting clear main enemies and breaking them down, it embodied a narrative in which the interests and counterpoints of the characters were intricately intertwined. In addition, the main characters in the Mu Shi-ying novel reveal the "difficulties" faced by those who were forced to stay in gray areas to survive amid power competition between imperialist countries and ideological conflicts among political forces within China.