인혁당 사건의 소설적 수용

Abstract

The official truth surrounding the Inhyeokdang incident, which was an underground organization for overthrowing the state is the manipulation by the Korean government at that time. Not until 2008 when the people concerned were found no guilty more than 30 years later was the second Inhyeokdang case over. The time background of the novel is April, 1974 which was in the middle of a trial about Inhyeokdang incident. In this paper, I tried to analyze how Kim Won-il's 『Pu-leun hon』(2005), called Pu-leun hon in Korean, borrowed a fictional framework to reconstruct and shape the case of Inhyukdang incident. The results are summarized as follows. First, The novel 『Pu-leun hon』 is a literary version of the official discourse that the event of Inhyeokdang was the result of national violence committed during the Cold War period. The novel consists of a combination of two narratives-the personal history of the “eight innocent individuals” and “the reality of the Inhyeokdang incident.” The novel focuses on 8 members' lives of Inhyeokdang who have been wrapped in a veil so far on a microscopic level, and shows the tragic personal history from their birth to death, while showing the entangled relationship between these characters. the characters' history of the story is similar with real victims' one because this novel was written based on the fact. In other words, it was found that the ‘testimony’ of the non-experienced persons such as their family members and villagers lies in the center of the critical mind of the writer that constitutes and drives up the novels. Second, It is not until a recent date that it is possible for the writer to create this kind of novel which was brought out an ideology argument which was a social taboo in the Korean society in the 1960s and 70s. In this book, recognition of the artist's view of the 1970s, including the seemingly legal murder of the judiciary, the tyranny for maintaining dictatorship, the humanity to be oppressed, the failure of the progressive transformation movement, and the recognition of reality intends to criticize the historical unconformity of the extreme right, anti-communist ideology that oppressed left wing intellectuals . Third, the novel, Blue Soul, is trying to show that even though the innocence of the 8 individuals involved is revealed through the trial, it is impossible to bring the wrongful death of the victims back to original states. The author shared the unfair feelings and emotions of the victims and their families who were victimized by the violence of the state rather than the ideological orientation or activity of the Inhyeokdang. The artist′s eyes on the Inhyeokdang remain only suffering without progressing to resistance. The reader′s view of the hardships of the Inhyeokdang is also empathized by readers. Therefore, 『Pu-leun hon』 can be regarded as an imbalance narrative which fails to arrange balance between the suffering and resistance of the Inhyeokdang properly. there is a limit to expanding the range of recognition of this case.