이름 없는 자들에 대한 기록 -이병주의 단편소설을 중심으로-

Abstract

In this article, the characters who were formalized to be related mainly with the past in the novels by Lee, Byung-Ju were reviewed what type of social situation they were involved in the current daily lives after passing the historical past, and it was to confirm what Lee, Byung-Ju tried to record by his novel through this process. The main characters including 「Jung, Hak-Joon」, 「Kang, Ki-Wan」 and 「Sergey Hong」 were related to the past of history so that their recovery of quotodiennete was not possible. Jung, Hak-Joon carries on independence movement for the country during the Japanese colonial period and acts according to his belief on the justice in the chaotic situation right after liberation, however, he faces his lonely death after a life in seclusion being branded lack of reality. In the novel, Lee, Byung-Ju compares the situation of Jung, Hak-Joon who is an independence activist with Park, Pal-Do’s who works forcedly to the Japanese Emperor demonstrating the problem how the unsettled past sacrifices a human-being. In addition, Kang, Ki-Wan commits a suicide after living without social relationship due to the unidentified rumor and misunderstanding that he was related to the other person’s death during the revolution trial and also due to guiltiness in 「Kang, Ki-Wan」. Meanwhile, the reality of Korean that was not mentioned well at the time of the novel creation is dealt microscopically by the character of Sergey Hong. Sergey Hong, who had to live as a foreigner forever losing the shelter to stay due to engaged historical situation, could be a representative character with political and social position of Koreans. Although the reasons and situations are somewhat different, they are all related to the past and do not enjoy the present life captured by the past. For those who are involved in the historical events, their daily lives are those as the misfit to the present, foreigner, and coward, hence, their positions are not well established in the society to be forgot. From the records of unidentified persons, Lee, Byung-Ju wants to mourn their lives and to provide the present readers with the new opportunity to understand the unrecorded past.