조지훈 추천 탈락시 「화련기(華戀記)」의 재고찰

Abstract

This article is a textual critique of Cho Ji-hoon's early poem “Record of Splendor and Yearning[華戀記]”. “Record of Splendor and Yearning[華戀記]” is a poem that was posted along with “Ancient Costume[古風衣裳]” in the April 1939 issue of “Sentence[文章]” magazine, and then dropped. The title and main text of “Record of Splendor and Yearning[華戀記]” was first introduced after the death of Cho Ji-hoon(1968) when “The Complete Collection of Cho Ji-hoon”(1973. hereafter referred to as “Complete”) was published. According to the Compilation Committee, it is highly likely that this poem was preserved as a handwritten manuscript and incorporated into the “Complete”. Then, errors can occur in the process of reading Chinese characters, and this poem also falls under that error. Jeong Ji-yong already stated that it was “Record of Splendor and Sadness[華悲記]” in the review of poem, and Cho Ji-hoon also included “My Poetry Wanderings” in “The World of Thought[思想界]”(August 1965 issue) and wrote “Record of Splendor and Sadness[華悲記]” five times. Although mentioned throughout the book, “My Poetry Wanderings” was omitted in the “Complete”. This is a disappointment of “The Complete Collection of Cho Ji-hoon”(1973, 1996). In the process of reading the Chinese characters of the handwritten manuscript, the poet’s own statement about the poem and the statement of judge Jeong Ji-yong were not taken seriously, and therefore the word ‘Sadness[悲]’ was changed to ‘Splendor[戀]’ in “Complete”. It is highly likely that the writing was mistakenly written with the letter ‘恋’, which is an abbreviation of ‘戀’. The basis for this possibility is the judgment that “brings the yearning drama[戀劇] of the midnight” in the poem's text is a misconception of “brings the tragedy[悲劇] of the midnight” in the context. If you read ‘Sadness[悲]’ as ‘Yearning[恋]’, it becomes ‘yearning drama[戀劇]’ instead of ‘tragedy[悲劇]’, and ‘Record of Splendor and Yearning[華戀記]’ instead of ‘Record of Splendor and Sadness[華悲記]’. ‘yearning drama[戀劇]’ is combination of Chinese characters that does not fit the context of this poem, and it is a strange vocabulary that cannot be found in the entire text of Cho Ji-hoon. As long as the “Record of Splendor and Yearning[華戀記]” is confirmed as an authentic version and continues, a ‘yearning drama[戀劇]’ cannot become a ‘tragedy[悲劇]’. The “Record of Splendor and Yearning[華戀記]” also cannot return to the “Record of Splendor and Sadness[華悲記]”. This is a misreading of the original text, and the problem is that many papers are mass produced without any suspicion that this is a misreading. This article analyzes the content of the poem text more closely, examines the poet's other creative poems around the time the text was published, and finds that ‘Splendor and Sadness[華悲]’ is a Chinese character vocabulary for a paradoxical situation where beauty and sadness coexist. Through this, it was confirmed that ‘Splendor and Sadness[華悲]’ is an interpretation that fits well with the composition of the entire poem.