김소진 문학의 기원과 분단문학의문화사적 전환

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore the meaning of the autobiographical experience and the creative methodology of realism, which have become the important foundation of Kim So-jin’s literature, to demonstrate that his works can be re-read as meta-fiction. In other words, this paper focuses on Kim So-jin’s novels and prose to explore the process of the formation of his literary origin through his father, and to examine the meaning of novel writing in his personal history. On the other hand, this paper analyzes the importance of Kim So-jin’s novel in the context of history of division literature. Kim So-jin’s works need to be reinterpreted as an allegory that shows the problems he faced as a novelist and various related situations. This attempt will provide an opportunity for a comprehensive review of Kim So-jin’s works, which were treated individually in different contexts. In other words, Kim So-jin, who started his career in the 1990s, has formed his own unique literary world by creating works based on autobiographical experiences (autobiographical fiction) and field work (journalistic fiction). In this manner, the two different trends were closely linked to each other in that they had a common reflection of the author’s literary interests. Analyzing Kim So-jin’s work on this basis will be an attempt to illuminate the literary orientation of Kim So-jin as a journalist who wanted to become a novelist and also a novelist who thought about journalist’s role at the same time. As a result, this attempt illuminates the literary meaning of Kim So-jin’s novel in the context of division literature and provides an opportunity to argue that Kim So-jin’s appearance can be read as a symptom of the transition of literary history in the 1990s.