정지용 문학의 가톨리시즘과 역사의식

Abstract

In Jeong, Ji Yong’s literature, Catholic poetry has been evaluated as a work of transient,heterogeneous trend being placed between a early sensationalism and late spiritualism. However, considering ‘the spiritual reading’ of the poets for prose the Drawing series andSt. Francisco containing conversion to Catholic and perceived experience of Catholic poetics,St. Teresia and Rev. Kim, Dae Keon, it was confirmed that an effect of Catholicismin Jeong, Ji Yong literature was unexpectedly awakening and adamant. During 1933～1934, by identifying mobility inherent in sacrifice of saints as a principle of ‘purification +loss ⇒sublimation’, Jeong, Ji Yong implemented it in Catholic psalms on the one han and suggested an attitude of emotional control and meditation as a method of‘sublimation’ for being coincided with saints while translating De Imitatione Christi on theother. This implies that Catholic poetry of Jeong, Ji Yong became valid by a relation of combinationwith Catholicism, not by derivation relation with it and his poetics had a structuralhomology with consciousness structure of Catholic believers. In 1939, Jeong, Ji Yong asserted,in his poetic theory, an arrangement of internal emotion and mediation of ‘the spirituality’as a method of spiritual poetry creation and this similarity between translatedcontents of faith book and poetic theory shows that Catholicism was placed on the foundationof his poetic theory of spiritualism. Mobility of ‘purification + loss ⇒ sublimation’being substituted from sacrifice of Catholic saints is internalized as a principle of psalmscontained in Baekrokdam. In 1937, while attending ‘Seoul St. Bangjigeo 3rd’, he pledged topractice Francisco idea even in other living area in addition to an area of literature. During persecution period in 1938～1939, that he made ‘Jochal-ha-da’ that is a literaturelanguage of Catholic verse as a personal poetic expression and combined Assumption ofthe Maria motif with plundered old place implies that Catholicism of a poet during colonialrule was reciprocated with historical consciousness. Poetic faith in sacrifice of Catholic saintsled to participation in ‘Choseon Martyrs Exaltation Society’ in 1939 but the fact that this societywas forced to accept a logic of religious patriotism based on a spirit of martyrdom byJapanese rule would be a tragedy of Catholics and a personal tragedy of Jeong, Ji Yong at thesame time at the end of Japanese rule. However, while a principle of ‘purification + loss ⇒sublimation’ becomes an instrument of beautifying the death of the war dead and Catholic sistersin ‘Ito’ and ‘Hwamun Haenggak’, in ‘Hawmun-Haenggak-Ohryongbae’ and ‘Horangnabi’that is another Hwamun-Haenggak text, it is represented as a mode of poetic salvation for‘Poverty-struck, deprived people’, This implies that a principle of sacrifice inherent in literatureof Jeong, Ji Yong had an exterior, interior relation with a logic of religious patriotism.