식민지 경성, 그 상실된 장소의 소설적 재현 -염상섭의 『광분』을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Seoul is the most frequently appeared place Yum Sang-seop’s novel based as a background of the story. It was not only a living place in his whole life time but also a literary space which can represent historic reality of the times. In Yum Sang-seop’s novel, Seoul serves as a literary device which can show a representative cross section of Korean colonial history and problematic situation the nation faces. Therefore, a discussion of ‘Seoul’ reflected in Yum Sang-seop’s literature should not be pertinent to the geographical characteristic or locality problem of Seoul. It is a sort of a symbolic space or a miniature world which sharp conflicts of real world become known, and the everyday life he depicted in his story is a reflection of universal life of the days related to the center core of harsh reality he detected, not an absurd story of particular individual. This study pays more attention to colonial Kei-jo(京城), Seoul of the 1920s, and Yum Sang-seop’s literary work of its representation. In his novel “Rampage(狂奔)”, He describes Kei-jo as a place that lost its original place identity and as a literary device that illustrate rifts and contradictions of colonial capitalism covered by modern images designed by Empire of Japan. Thus, this paper focuses on ‘placelessness’ of Seoul described in “Rampage(狂奔)”, and aims to demonstrate that the literary representation of colonial Kei-jo subvert the modern image devised by the Japanese rule.