임화의 ‘신문학사’ 인식과 전통 - ‘구소설’과 ‘신소설’의 연속성

Abstract

ImHwa(林和)’s Korean modern history of literature(新文學史) is described a differentiation of middle ages literature and modern literature in quality. ImHwa defined the Korean modern history of literature that it was the literature that does a modern spirit to contents, and was written to the Korean language which did a genre of the Western European literature with formats. ImHwa described the Korean modern history of literature that it was stopped with middle ages literature and it was the transplant history of literature of West literature. By the way, ImHwa actually described ‘New-novel’ that it was a combinded literature which put together with a format of ‘Old-novel’a and a Contents of literature abroad. But what the Korean modern history of literature is succeeding to a format of ‘Old-novel’ is to be contradictory with his thought. In addition to formats in contents, Logical recognition of ImHwa and the actual description are each other contradictory. The internal volume characteristic of ‘New-novel’ which ImHwa is taking for example through “Hyeoluiru”, “Eunsegye”, “Chiaksan”, “Gwiuiseong” is caught ‘Old-novel’ such as “Sassinamjeonggi”, “Choecheokjeon”, “Chunhyangjeon”. According to recognition logic of ImHwa, ‘New-novel’ is defined to the modern literature. The true modern literature starts from “Mujeong”. ‘New-novel’ is ‘Old-novel’ and a form having continued historically. the history of novel until ‘New-novel’ appears becomes the premodern literature. ImHwa told ‘transplant’, but actually it is to have described ‘succession’.