김학철의 반제혁명 인식의 발전과 작가적 성장-초기 창작을 중심으로

Abstract

This thesis focused on Kim Hak-cheol’s early works between 1945(the year of Liberation) and 1953(the year of the Korean War Armistice) and tried to find how to connect them with the special aesthetic characteristics and narrative mode of Kim Hak-cheol’s work Passion Era. In particular, this thesis focused on the historical significance of Flood, one of Kim Hak-cheol’s novelle during North Korean period, which has not received the attention of researchers. Before Liberation Kim Hak-cheol was in prison of Nagasaki, Japan. He expressed his return to Seoul in two ways. One was to be a writer who published novels that literally depicted the experience of Korean Volunteer Army, the other was to be a disabled veteran of Korean Volunteer Army who was invited to give reports about ‘return’ at meetings of the various political groups. The absoluteness and concreteness of beliefs and experiences in ‘return’ reports were inflammatory and improvisational. Compared with this, it fails to achieve objectification and subjectivity through communication with the outside world but seems to be the directness of his novels. Kim Hak-cheol, who fled to Pyongyang to avoid political repression of the left party, Gradually came out of the recollection of the experience of Korean Volunteer Army and started to use new materials. The representative work is Flood. The work is about ‘People’s Uprising in October’ and South Korea’s Partisan Struggle after that. From this novel, we know that South Korea’s Partisan Struggle was under the direct leadership of the Labor Party Central Committee which was headed by General Kim Il-sung. Yanbian, which was chosen as the final destination of political asylum, was recognized by Kim Hak-cheol as a fateful space in which ideal and reality coincided. Only one year after he settled in, he published the Say, Hailan River, which depicted “Yanbian Korean people’s history of anti-Japanese struggle under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party”. The official history wan connected with Yanbian history by his writing. However, the same as South Korea’s Partisan Struggle, Yanbian history and revolutionary history were new to him. So he collected many materials, did interviews and investigations to change these new things to be his experience and specific memories. Say, Hailan River was the result. In Say, Hailan River, standardization and de-standardization were reflected at the same time. Its dynamic narrative features is Kim Hak-cheol’s way of visualizing Koreans’ revolutionary struggle against imperialism in Yanbian. That is a special way to combine the directness of specific story with objectification of the writer himself. At the end of the Cultural Revolution, he created a special narrative method formed by open narrative structure and de-standardization in his novel Passion Era that was the visualization of the experience in Korean Volunteer Army. This means the emergence and formation of the writer himself like Kim Hak-cheol.