두 개의 전쟁, 하나의 인식 : 백철의 전후비평에 나타난 ‘한국전쟁’의 이해를 중심으로

Abstract

There was very familiar and old low-estimation on Baek Chul's literary criticism in the Korean modern literary history. It was that he has never ever had his original literary principle and always has ridden on the waves of current tendencies. So they called him as an opportunist or a convert from communism. I tried to correct the old prejudice on Baek Chul's works through this article. I focused on the his theoretical consistency and historical continuity which has appeared on critical texts between in the late Japanese colonial period and the postwar period. Especially, I wanted to emphasize that his patterns and methods in interpretation on the Sino-Japanese War were very similar to them on the Korean War. The conclusion of this article is that Baek Chul was a fundamental liberalist and a believer in modern literature based on the "rational reason". On the other hand, his fatal weakness as a critic was not his fast conversion or opportunism, but his fixed idea to modernization.