입신출세주의의 문학적 의미 이태준『사상의 월야』와 그 밖의 작품들

Abstract

In all ages and countries successful life and remarkable careerism are a kind of general ambition most people has carving for. Their instances can be observed in Classic of Filial Piety of Confucianism and the Sutras of Mahāyāna Buddhism, foundation of the belief and the spirit of Northeastern Asia. But it is the time of Meiji Renovation in Japan that modern Success-Discourse entrance on the entire surface of historical stage. Then Success-Discourse in early modern Korea united with nationalism and enlightenment has become and bobbed up intellectual fashion and the spirit of times, made use of mean and expedient in order to appear his name in society by colonial youth people, also. Success-discourses presented between 1920's and 1930's were dominated by critical essay and simple satellite(critic and narratologist Semour Chatman makes mention of) nothing but truly literary work, as jobless lumpen intelligentsia's failure-stories main-streamed setting aside success in literary history of modern Korea. Its story can be found out Lee Gwang Soo's, Hyun Jin-Gun's, Chae Man-Sik's, Kim Nae-Sung's, and Bang In-Gun' s works. It is important to us that Lee Tae-Jun's Moon-night of thought is the only text dealt with topic of success in life in earnest. The Fiction can be mentioned a sort of autobiographical text and Bildungsroman most researchers indicated already. In the text Lee Song-Bin served as hero and author's avatar shows struggles and reach to rich and fame. In spite of that the Success-Discourse is able to define project of modern of Japan to breed up the leading elite group having nothing to do with Korean youth people under the imperial regime. In one word, it's false consciousness and cultural happening to them. Then it is a typical example that most of literary works dealt with the theme in Korea come to tragedy and failure-story or being lack of them. At that point, the matter of Success-Discourse can be affirmed hollow cultural aspect to be shown contradiction and paradox of modernity in the modern literary history of Korea.