생명과 ‘생활’ - 魯迅과 沈從文의 생명의식 비교 연구

Abstract

Shencongwen insisted on reforming China’s nationality and building a new nation-state by using beauty, simplicity, sincerity, and natural and harmonious personality based on the healthy vitality of the people of his hometown Xiangxi. However the idea gradually became abstract, and due to repeated references to the anachronistic May 4th Enlightenment ideology and conflicts with the left-wing cultural community, it caused complete isolation from the mainstream cultural world after the founding of New China. In short, although he shared the May 4th literary ideology of ‘reform of the national character’ with the new youth(新靑年), he diverged from the left-wing literary circle in terms of methodology to change China and the epistemology underlying it, resulting in complete exclusion from the literary circle despite being the leader of Jingpai(京派) literature. On the other hand Luxun delays the disconnection of life and continues the creation of literature by making the maniac of 『A Madman’s Diary(狂人日記)』 to return to reality. However after about 10 years of suspension of novel creation in the mid-1920s, he gradually practices an ideological transformation in which the concept of ‘life(生活)’ among life(生命) is involved since he became skeptical of the ideal human image, that is, the self-awareness to save China through the practice of a person.