오영수의 동요 작품에 나타나는 현실 인식 양상과 의미 – 『조선일보』와 『동아일보』 수록 동요 작품을 중심으로 –

Abstract

This study examined 17 children’s songs published by Oh Young–soo under his real name and pen names ‘Oh Pachim’ and ‘Oh Seok–beom’ in Chosun Ilbo and Dong–A Ilbo from 1927 to 1930. The children’s songs created by Oh Young –soo during this period were the starting point of his literature, and were seen as showing that the ‘locality’ and ‘pure orientation’ that appeared in Oh Young– soo’s later novels were not the result of indifference or avoidance of reality. Oh Young–soo’s children’s songs have been evaluated as ‘subjective Children’s Innocence’ and a different tendency from the ‘classist realism’ children’s songs. However, it was confirmed that Oh Young–soo’s children’s songs work expressed the absurd reality of the time through a young speaker. The absurdity arising from the asymmetry of class and power and the resulting conflict were expressed through the young speaker’s direct anger. Of course, in Oh Young–soo’s children’s songs, there were not only works that directly expressed emotions toward the absurdity of reality, but also works that showed doubts and criticism about the modern human–centered, reason–centered worldview. At this time, it was confirmed that rather than simply conveying the natural scenery, it focused on the appearance of animals and the relationship between humans and nature. The criticism of class and power relations and the yearning for nature in Oh Young–soo’s children’s songs are seen as containing the literary desire to overcome the asymmetrical world and achieve symmetry. In a cold world where an asymmetrical order based on identity operates, Oh Young–soo is believed to have dreamed of an ideal world through the symmetrical thinking of ‘Children’s Innocence’. The direction of Oh Young–soo’s literature was prepared from his children’s songs.