이용악 산문집『보람찬 청춘』연구

Abstract

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth, this thesis is to study Lee Yong Ak's collection of prose Fruitful Youth, found during the preparation of 'Lee Yong Ak's complete works' The Fruitful Youth stands out because it is Lee Yong Ak's only collection of prose and the first book published in North Korea after the Korean War. It's especially meaningful that his writing and publication time was at the same moment when Lee Yong Ak who got punished during the purge of 'South Korea Labor Party' clique, resumed his activities and the moment when North Korea met the period of the 'postwar recovery and establishment of socialistic foundation'. Because it is not only the reinstatement of Lee Yong Ak but also an important link for him to be sustainedly active in North Korea and to become a representative poet being highly estimated among literary history of North Korea. Furthermore it's an important clue to understand the development and whole story of Lee Yong Ak's works softlanded in North Korea. In this research we studied the character of genre and contents of Lee Yong Ak's newly found essay『Fruitful Youth』 together with his contemporary poetries. Lee Yong Ak's only collection of prose Fruitful Youth while he never expressed his clear prose-sense except his few short proses, enables us estimate the logic and reasoning power about Lee Yong Ak's preception and response at that time. Also it's possible to understand all of Lee Yong Ak's whole art world at that time through his contemporary poetries.