정치소설 『경국미담』의 동북아 연쇄 번역 양상 연구 - 순한글판 및 상무인서관 단행본 『경국미담』을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is to study on the relationship between the Korean political novel Gyeong-Kuk-Mi-Dam(경국미담) written by Hyeon Gong-nyeom(玄公廉) in 1908, and Jingguomeitan(經國美談) which was written in the Late Qing Dynasty. In this thesis, after a positive text analysis, it is proved that the Korean political novel Gyeong-Kuk-Mi-Dam was an adaptation work of the Chinese-version political novel Jingguomeitan. and the Japanese novel Seimumeisikeikokubidan(齊武名士經國美談) written by Yano Lyokey(矢 野龍溪) in 1883 was proved to be the original work of Gyeong-Kuk-Mi-Dam. Although this Hyeon's political novel is a translation work, that doesn't mean the story of Gyeong-Kuk-Mi-Dam is just the same as its Chinese or Japanese version. After a comparison between Hyeon's work and all the other versions of this novel, some interesting truth had been found by the writter of this thesis. through Hyeon's translation, the entertaining founction and knowledge-popularizing function of Gyeong-Kuk-Mi-Dam's original work and Chinese version had been substantially reduced, while the political founction has been considerably intensified at the same time. Through this study, we can notice that there had been a very active communication among Korea, China and Japan during the early period of modernazation in the field of literature. It is why figuring out Korea, China and Japan's history of translated literature under the East-asian perspective is so important and necessary for the expansion of East-asian studies.