이원조의 횡단적 글쓰기 연구

Abstract

Lee Wonjo is one of the important critics in Korean literary history. But we have only few studies on him. It’s because his works are elusive under our academic tradition which is focused on political positions. However Lee’s distinctive feature which is able to be linked with very diverse positions generates a key to get in his works. To capture this feature, this paper is characterizing Lee’s work as a ‘transcritic.’ Lee’s works are reminding various views so they have linked with bourgeois, proletariat, moderate and even fascist views. However, attempt to answer the question that ‘What is his original position?’ is not helpful. That’s why this paper is characterizing his work as a trascritic. It sets a different question so we can focus on the gap inhere. It is not important that asking what his very position is, but why the gap is occurred. Lee’s transcritical writing was induced with seeking the way to cope with the circumstance at that times. He characterized that times as an age of crisis in which spirit of the age is absent. Thus he set a task of Korean literature to rebuild the spirit. His thought was based on the concept of sincerity. The sincerity means an attitude to pursuit the truth through self-reflection and also to serve the truth out of subject. The principle of sincerity was caused by his various intellectual nourishments. It was the crossing point of the confucian culture caused in his growing up, knowledge of French literature which he studied in Japan, and socialism that he learned with a will of social participation.