1970년대 초 농촌근대화 담론과 그 소설적 굴절 -이병주와 이문구를 중심으로

Abstract

The early 1970’s was the era that was received the results and effects which the rapid industrialization and urbanization of the previous 1960’s had caused, and the discourse of the rural modernization in this era also must not have concealed or shrunk the economic․social problems that the one-sided industrialization and urbanization produced, and must have presented a positive explanation and a solution. Such a result was ‘the agriculture first policy’of the third five-year plan for economic development, but the real contents was still the line of ‘the selective support’ centering around ‘the new farmer’ and ‘the new village’, and this was the intensified form of the discourse of ‘the image of new farmer’ in the 1960‘s. But among the novels of 『New farmer』 in this era there are some works that keep distance from the discourse of the rural urbanization of the ruling authority. Lee Byeong-Joo’s 『Homesickness』 has its own meaning on the point that it has the element of the indirect criticism of the rural reality, and that it verified the ardent wish for culture that lurks in the farmers‘ inner world or the earnest desire for the real condition which can make them have liberal arts, in spite of the strong aspect of the popular literature and the problem of the dilettante inclination. Lee Mun-Goo’s 「Stupid Beast」 is also a work that does not be captured by the dominating discourse of the government-manufactured media of 『NewFarmer』 and keep distance from it, and has his consistent viewpoint that the problem of the poverty of the farm villages or the farmers has nothing to do with the ‘diligence’ and ‘self-reliance’,and has his unique stylistic peculiarity that describes the weary rural reality with characteristic humor and satire.