서계 김담수 문학에 나타난 ‘가족’과 그 의미

Abstract

This paper presents a focused investigation into Kim Dam-su's ideas about "family" and its meanings in his literature. After Imjinwaeran broke out, he led his family and evacuated into Mt. Gaya. After Jeongyujaeran broke out, he and his family wandered around Andong and Sangju. His love for his family and determination to return to home was created in the background. His heart for his family can be understood in four aspects: his earnest filial love for his mother, the combination of his longing for his home and his mother, his particular fatherly love for his eldest son, and his emotional communion and request for his sons. In the Confucian view of the world, "family-state-Heaven" are interconnected fundamentally, which is why the meanings of family are directly connected to social issues in Kim's literature, in which he told his eldest son Jeongryong that Sugi was the most important in ruling a village and introduced a virtuous cycle structure between children's filial duty for their parents and parents' affection for their children. Exchanging rhyme-borrowing poems with his children, his formed literary and emotional communion with them, which indicates that filial piety and brotherly love at home can lead to the social spread of benevolence and that love for his family became his internal energy to overcome the rough society.