전후 한일문학자의 전쟁소설 비교연구 -제3국에서 체험한 아시아태평양전쟁-

Abstract

This paper aims to conduct a comparative analysis of the war novels of Koreaand Japan written in the post-war years and set in the Philippines, the battlegroundof the most violent battles fought between the United States and Japan, and therebyshed new light on the meaning of the Asia Pacific War as experienced in a thirdcountry. More specifically, it explores the war novels published during 1945-1960by Ooka Shohei and Byung-gu Lee, authors who have had the common experienceof fighting in the war in the Philippines in the early 1940's. The setting of the novels of these two authors, which is also the place wherethey both actually experienced war in their lives, is not their native state but rathera third country, the Philippines. This is why in comparatively analyzing the AsiaPacific war novels of these authors, the implications associated with this spatialsetting cannot be overlooked, with the Philippines having been the fiercest battlefieldwhile it was never ever directly involved in the war. Therefore, this study focuseson the fact that the novels address the Asia Pacific war as experienced in a thirdcountry in comparing the post-war works of a Korean writer and a Japanese writer. this study looked into how the natural environment and native population of thePhilippines were depicted by the main characters of the novels who were survivingbut defeated soldiers. The psychological state of the protagonists tended to beprojected in the description of nature in Ooka's novel and in the characterizationof people in Lee's novel. Through such psychological projections, the protagonistsdetach themselves from the collective identity and perceive themselves as anindividual.