1910년대 후반기 소설에 나타난 계몽적 목소리

Abstract

This essay tries to compare and contrast the resources of enlightening voices represented in the three novels in the late 1910s: Sin Chaeho's Dream Sky(<꿈하늘>), Lee Kwangsoo's Heartless(<무정>), and Kim Dongin's A Sadness of the Weak(<약한 자의 슬픔>). Sin's novel acquires a great significance as a resistant nationalist discourse against the dominant imperialist ideology, in spite of its fantastic structure which tends to reduce a sense of reality with its immanent spiritualism. Lee's novel, whose world experienced by its characters is a false one reconstituted by the ideology of colonialism camouflaged under the name of humanitarianism, hierarchized Chosun and Japan(or the West) positioning the former into the inferior on the dichotomy of barbarism and civilization. The enlightenment spirit in Kim's novelette is characterized not by its interiority, despite its appearance of it, but by its exteriority operating dependent on a narrator's authority. A project of discovering and forming a real interiority of modern man, a fusion of individual self and social one, did not come into being until in the 1920s some really modern novels which coped with the contradictions of the colonial society through the birth of modern consciousness appeared.