『진주는 주었으나』의 이야기 방식과 근대성

Abstract

Yeum Sang-sup’s 『Though gave the pearl』could not take the attention of the learned circles. This work does not seem to draw many popularity at the day. Yeum Sang-sup agonized for the publication of the 『Though gave the pearl』. Yeum Sang-sup investigated through 『the Independent movement before』 & 『What you got』 about the structure of the novels before this work. He analyzed many desires of the day in many novels. 『Though gave the pearl』 is a novel that had clear critic spirit of the writer about a day society. Yeum Sang-sup lightly wrote novels to put the custom of that time and the critic spirit of real life. This novel included the two kind of the tendency. 『Though gave the pearl』included the modern device-it lightly reflected that time. Yeum Sang-sup is a writer who seriously reflects about the wrong period through the negation about the society to deny. 『Though gave the pearl』This novel criticizes too about the moral depravity of a material omnipotence society. The writer, Yeum Sang-sup tried to treat social problem through this novel. Therefore he exposed directly the writer's consciousness in this work. It is often appeared in an internal complications of hero in this work. In another method, it is layed much scenes a lettering or a speeches in the novel. At this time speech that Yeum Sang-sup used in the novel was one of a modern device. The writer put the detective story's elements-the disguise, the shadowing, the reasooning and used the newspaper articles. All these was the modern devices that the writer used for the interest in his novel.