막다른 곳, 땅 끝에서 삶은 새로 시작되다

• 발행기관: 동남어문학회
• 저자명: 이호규(Lee Ho-Gyoo)
• 간행물 정보: 『동남어문논집』동남어문논집 제26집, 1~18쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.11.30

영문 초록

A life begins anew in a dead end, at the end of the earth. - War and Busan shown in novels after the Korean War. Dongnam Journal of Korean Language & Literature 26. How authors who are refugee themselves generally depict and illustrate Busan during the war? The loss of hometowns and settlements appear different according to the background or origin of the subject, namely, the hometown and hierarchical condition of the subject. This study aims to discover how these conditions appear in novels after the war, what the differences mean, and what meaning the place, Busan, has amid the differences. For Kim Dong Ri, Jo Yeon Hyeon, and others, the Busan-bound train or trip was a spiraling down of depression and despair, which was literally a refuge they could not but choose in hopelessness while losing their own residences. Therefore, the scene at the Busan Port looked extremely bleak in their eyes. Busan, immediately before the cease-fire, was described as an adequate place where the self-awareness and existentialistic nihilism of the author could emerge in ‘On a Raining Day’ by Son Chang Seob in 1953; thus, unrealistic despair and sad emotion appeared overly amplified. Despite the fact that Busan was a place where lives existed in an ordinary place, Busan was still an unfamiliar place to the author, and characters were adrift as if they felt like strangers there. This situation is described in ‘The Third Human Type’ by Ahn Soo Gil, announced in 1953 when the war was under suspension. Nevertheless, in ‘Talhyang (Escape from Hometowns)’ by Lee Ho Cheol, there is a point of reversal ironically changing direction completely at a time when Busan was perceived as a place of despair, which differentiates Busan in the book from Busan as described in other books. Now, displaced people perceived that they needed to be included within the realm of normal people as ordinary working people who transcended themselves as the Other. Busan was recognized as a new space and a new settlement. However, there is a possibility that Busan may be perceived only as a place of success for emigrants, who have by their wiliness and tricks cunningly adjusted to the trends of social conditions since Busan was a place where the snobbish and deteriorated pariah capitalism surged in the midst of the war. Busan was poised to be the new emigrant location while going through the post-war era, and it shouldn’t be overlooked that those emigrants gathered to form a single huge community.

목차

1. 이주공간으로서의 부산 - 피난과 정착

2. 절망 속에서 만난 타향, 낯설음

3. 새로운 가능성의 공간, 그 양면성

4. 마무리하면서

참고문헌

키워드

전후소설(post-war novel) 전쟁(war) 피난(evacuation) 이주(immigration) 정착(settlement) 부산(Busan)