투르게네프의 식민지적 변용 ―『사냥꾼의 수기』와 현진건 후기 단편소설을 중심으로

Abstract

This study explored the influences Hyun Jin-gun received from Turgenev, focusing onhis short stories. Hyun Jin-gun translated Turgenev’s medium-length and full-length novelsand referred to them in many ways from his early part of activities, but since 1926, heattempted ‘Turgenev’s colonial adaptation’ more actively. There was A Sportsman’s Sketches,Turgenev’s series of short stories, in the center of it. The characteristics of the first-personpoint of view presented in Hyun Jin-gun’s later short stories and the composition strategyof A Sportsman’s Sketches are in line with those of A Sportsman’s Sketches. Most of all, the narrativeframe of the short stories written after 1926 greatly depended on that of A Sportsman’s Sketches. However, Hyun Jin-gun’s not only brought the point of view or narrative framefrom A Sportsman’s Sketches, but also desired all the essential accomplishment contained inthe literature. Many features seen in Hyun Jin-gun’s stories including the method of description,the imagery of the lower class as a human being with nobel values, and the accusationof violence of the national system are in connection with the techniques of ASportsman’s Sketches. Among them, the core is that Hyun Jin-gun substituted the messagesTurgenev demonstrated in the confrontation composition of ‘landowner-serf’ with theconfrontation of ‘imperialism-colony’. The fact that he drew the narrative frame embodied in A Sportsman’s Sketches repeatedlymay be an element that adds lightness to Hyun Jin-gun’s evaluation in Korean literaturehistory. When considering the other way, however, this can be what turns over his estimationin the history of Korean literature. For instance, the sobriquet of ‘technical writer’which followed Hyun Jin-gun like a tag does not wholly represent the way he took. Hyun Jin-gun was the novelist who desired another A Sportsman’s Sketches that reflectedthe reality of Korea. In other words, he intentionally clung to A Sportsman’s Sketches. Whathe truly wanted was to reproduce the system-overthrowing resistance inherent in ASportsman’s Sketches in the system of colony.