전제자의 시선과 자리의 박탈 - 김동인 단편소설 속 시점과 인물의 관계

Abstract

This study analyzes the relationship between point of view and the way of shaping character in Kim Dong-in's short novel. As Kim Dong-in himself considered the point of view as important in his novel creation, his novels use the first-person point of view and the third-person point of view in various ways. The positions the characters occupy in the novel are closely connected with the point of view. This is an important sign to read the perception and desire of novelist Kim Dong-in. First of all, at the first person point of view, the characters representing the writer often appear, and they are in the position of observers. However, the narrator is not satisfied only with the position of the observer 'I', but seeks to change the point of view using the power of a frame tale. This reinforces the role of a novelist, while the vitality of the characters in the novel is weakened. The characters summoned from the third-person point of view exist outside the writer's experience, and they are mainly lower classes and women. The position and limitations of Kim Dong-in, who is based on the class of the landlords and is male-centered, are clearly revealed in the process of shaping them. They are easily consumed in the fate designed by the writer. Or the writer's narrow and twisted perception is projected and shaped into a distorted figure. It is also important that the lower classes and female characters are not given proper residence in the novel. Unlike them, the characters who represent the writer have a residence, but in works after the liberation of Korea, such a position is in danger of collapse due to external reality. Kim Dong-in responds with denial and criticism of the reality of the time, lacking reflection on himself, revealing the limitations of his historical perception in the process. In short, Kim Dong-in's short novels can be read as traces of his repetitive and obsessive writings in order to establish his position as a novelist(artist). We will see how others have been deprived of their place in those traces. Criticizing novelist Kim Dong-in, who is standing in the place where they disappeared, ultimately asks again how the origin of modern Korean literature was formed and maintained.