한설야의 전향기소설과 노신의 「공을기」,「광인일기」의 영향관계 고찰

Abstract

More than one and a half year in prison in Jeonju from June 1934 gave the writer HanSeol-ya many opportunities to conduct a comprehensive self-examination. Indeed, HanSeol-ya’s thoughts and works in prison showed new features and his new works after hewas released from prison turned entirely different in style and content from his worksbefore. His new works were called “turn novels” in academic world. This thesis called hisnovels as “novels in turn period” in order to obtain more free research space. Later on,Han Seol-ya once said that what he thought about the most in prison was Kong Yiji and Amadman’s Diary from Lu Xun, in which the figures accompanied him through the hardesttimes, so Han Seol-ya’s change in writing was motivated by Lu Xun’s works. According toHan Seol-ya’s remarks on Kong Yiji and A Madman’s Diary, the thesis took a researchmethod of comparative literature to discuss the relations between turn of novels from HanSeol-ya and Kong Yiji and A Madman’s Diary from Lu Xun. Han Seol-ya and Lu Xun were writers, whose enthusiasm about society and politicswere the same as or higher than that of their aesthetic value on literature. Generallyspeaking, there were great differences between their literature and thoughts. However,Han Seol-ya’s novels during turn period had been influenced by Lu Xun’s Kong Yiji and Amadman’s Diary, and the novels from the two writers could be explored many commonfactors in content and style. For example, the figures in their novels showed the predicamentsand spiritual dilemma of the intellectuals in that historic period, and revealed theresistance deep in the intellectuals’ heart to the society. Han Seol-ya reflected himselffrom Kong Yiji’s destiny, thought about his cultural identity and social influence, and motivatedhimself to walk out of the failed and survival situation that Kong Yiji faced. Then he noticed the necessity of irreconcilable contradiction and resistance to society betweenhimself and the old society and old regime. The turn novels from Han Seol-ya manifested that Korean intellectuals in that historicperiod had undergone the experience from confusion and hesitation to accumulatingstrength and resistance. The experience could be said a struggle for survival after overcomingdifficulties to march forward bravely, or an exploration for pursuing a culturalidentity. In the art form, Han Seol-ya took a form of “novel on hand”, that is the novel describedtrivial things in life experience which happened around him. His novels in turnperiod were created in realism in order to express the life itself. Therefore, his novels gotrid of the connectional restriction, and successfully overcame the content-oriented andidealism often seen in the novels of the left wing, which brought new vitality to hisnovels.