폐허로부터의 비전 - 일제말기 김남천의 소설론과 탈식민의 계기

Abstract

This article aims to explore KIM Nam－cheon’s perception that the politics of literature was essentially related to the conversion of body, and to prove the momentum of decolonization that this conversion implied. In transition period, KIM appreciated literary practice as the socio－political praxis, and sequentially developed his own novel theory such as accusation(告發), moral, custom(風俗), and observation(觀察). His novel theory was not only the attempt to grasp the structure of world and the mechanism of subjectification through novel, but also the theoretical investigation to establish the fictionwriting as the metamorphosis process of the relationships of subject－world and self and others. In discourse on moral－custom, KIM quested the mechanism of subjectification, concerning how the conceptual－general could be related to a bodily ‘self(I).’ KIM took note that the relationship between the conceptual and the singular was constituted by the mediation of the body, and therefore might reach the perception that becoming subject is having a body and that a writer suffers the conversion process of body through the fiction－writing. The realism of self－effacement which the literature theory of observation achieved could be a result of conversion or metamorphosis of the body. It was the novel that grasped the mechanism of subjectification through the conversion of the body. KIM desired to regenerate the Ursprung of novel so as to reveal the structure of the transition period through by depicting the subjectification process. The Ursprung of novel was to represent the prosaic of world, in other words, to comprehend horizontally the world from the bottom. KIM’s theoretical investigation and literary adventure could not bear abundant fruit. However, he deserves to be estimated as a theorist and novelist who faced the world since the Sino－Japanese War as ruins and who sought the momentum for the de－colonization ab intra where imperialism and colonialism were highly－concentrated.