한일 소년탐정소설 연구 - 에도가와 란포와 김내성을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Edogawa Rampo and Kim Rae Sung are leading detective novel writers in Japan and Korea. In 1936, Rampo published a juvenile detective novel, The Fiend with Twenty Faces, in Shonen Club, and Kim Rae Sung published his first juvenile detective novel, The White Mask, in Sonyeon in 1937. From the mid 1930s to the late 1930s, the culture of publishing children’s books in Japan reached its peak, and Shonen Club was enjoying its best days in 1936. Meanwhile, Sonyeon was a new magazine founded by the Chosun Ilbo in 1937 for children. However, both Shonen Club and Soneyon were not free from censorship due to the Sino-Japanese War. To sum up, Rampo and Kim Rae Sung wrote a juvenile detective story in different places called Empire and Colony, respectively, ahead of the Sino-Japanese War. Rampo’s The Fiend with Twenty Faces was in line with the intention of Shonen Club, which used “Education Outside School” as its editorial policy, and Kim Rae Sung’s The White Mask was also in accordance with Soneyon, which was censored by the Japanese Government General of Korea. As a result, at the end of the two works, we feel darkness, sadness, fight, and despair in the cries of boys who sing hope, saying, “There is no darkness, no sadness, no fight, and no jealousy.”