한일 ‘기독교 베스트셀러소설’ 비교연구

Abstract

This study compares Korean writing borrowing materials from Christianity and describing Christian view of the world faithfully, and Japanese writing which borrowing materials from Christianity but not describing Christian view of the world to define ‘Christian Literature’ clearly. This study aims the consideration of the most important element in so-called ‘comprehensive perspective’ by comparison between writing near the ‘Christian Literature’ and writing far from it despite of borrowing materials faithfully from Christianity. Moreover, both targeted writing are full-length novels published each in Korea and Japan nearly at the same time, and became the bestseller at that time. It is argued that the question about what kind of relations these novels, being popular among readers at that time, had with ‘Christian Literature’, how they involved in the area of ‘Christian Literature' or not are relevant to the definition of ‘Christian.