전후 한국문학의 실존주의 고찰 - 부정과 참여 의식을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Western ideas which support post-war modernism literature were attempted in various way. After the World War, the world sensibility was susceptible to accommodate to participate the Existentialism under the desolate post-war situation of Korea. It reflected most intensively the situation of 1950s Korea Literature and intellectuals. Korean post-war modernism literature was configured as Sartre. The thing that it focused on the literature of Sartre which makes a point of participation in reality means a point of view that problem of existence is not possible without the recognition of the reality. This is a characteristic of the Existentialism in Korea literature. Ko Seok-Kyu insisted most distinct and exuberant the literature through a translation of a series of the Existentialism literature. He faced a reality of the Existentialism as a space, and recognized negative spirit of it as a possibility to change the new area. Kim Bung-Ku understood the Existentialism literature as a literature of behavior and a literature of real testimony, and emphasized an importance of the behaviorism. His behaviorism set the humanism as a forth premise. It means that the discussion of post-war Existentialism have a deep relevance with the humanism. Lee Eo-Ryeong took the literature of Sartre as a basis of the argument. He said that we have to change a situation around us for our existence and insisted that the change would be possible through a 'participation'. At this stage, engagement literature met the humanism based on the Existentialism.