『만세전』과 초기 염상섭의 아나키즘적 정치미학

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics of ‘political aesthetic of anarchism’reflected on the early part of the Yeom Sang-Seop’s field of literature and to re-read ‘The Mansejeon’ which is one of the his early works. The reason that ‘Myoji’ written by Yeom Sang-Seop could be serialized on ‘Sinsanghwal’in 1922 is he had network with the writers of ‘Sinsanghwal’. The relations of Yeom Sang-Seop and Sinsanghwal were showed well through the reaction of Yeom Sang-Seop about the case of a serious slip of the pen Yeom Sang-Seop attended the meeting dealing with the case of a serious slip of the pen as a representative of the ‘Dongmyung’ and also published many papers against the government on the ‘Dongmyung’. It is because he shared the ideological intention called as anarchism with ‘Sinsanghwal’. When we examine the ‘personality and art’ regarded as the Yeom Sang-Seop‘s announcement of Naturalism, it is found the likeness to the Idea of Ganeko Umagi who is one of the Japanese philosopher of life. Ganeko Umagi has understood the trend of Naturalism literature as the characteristics of fin-de-siecle mood like description of dark side. He defined the naturalism of France as the narrow Naturalism literature, meanwhile,included the Northern Europe writers into the Naturalism literature in a broad sense. He had a monistic view that Art equal to ’the living / life’ and emphasized that the true Art is the expression of the only specialty of the personality. It is analogous with the opinion of Yeom Sang-Seop that the true art is the expression of the “originailty of unique ego” at the ‘personality and art’. However Yeom Sang-Seop transformed ‘the personality’ into ‘the rebel’ against the social suppression mechanism by combining the concept of ‘the personality’and the concept of ‘the rebel’ of Max Stirner in the process of accepting the concept of Naturalism of Ganeko Umagi The Mansejeon is the work reflected Yeom Sang-Seop’s consciousness of the times in the early of 1920s. Mansejeon is the novel which explored the trigger for ‘the 1919[Samil]Independence Movement’ and described ‘Chosun’ of the day as a ‘cemetery’. However the ‘cemetery’ is not only the nihilistic ruined place but also represent the turning point which The New-age can be started at. Although ‘the 1919[Samil] Independence Movement’ wasn’t embodied in his work, it was implied as the turning point opening the New-age divorced from the Old-aged juxtaposed with the wife dying for giving a new birth. Yi-In-Hwa having the cynical reason is the character whose intelligence and action are splitted. He knows that he is bound but he doesn’t know what makes him bound. However he had confirmed various suppression mechanism of the Empire of Japan while he traveled from Tokyo to Kyung-sung and took himself to pieces as a colonist by self-treason. After Yi-In-Hwa had realized the situation of Chosun in those days is not different from cemeteries, he recognized that he should betray the social system of the day through ‘destruction and creation’ which are the mottos of anarchism. Yi-In-Hwa who had realized the importance of ‘the life and personality’ through the death of his wife emphasized that he should become a traitor who is the main agent of the global turning point in the letter to Jung-ja. However Yeom Sang-Seop failed to describe traitor type of characters after Mansejeon, that is because the experiment of ‘reconstitution of the main agent’ was disappointed by the social movement in Chosun moving to Marxism-Leninism after the 1919[Samil] Independence Movement.