염상섭 『삼대』의 다성성(多聲性) 연구

A Study on Modern Korean Polyphonic Novel, 『Sam Dae(삼대)』

&nbsp;&nbsp;Yeom Samg Sup(廉想涉) was Novelist, essayist, journalist, social and literary critic. From 1926 to 1931, Yeom Sang Sup had written four novels, 『Sarang and J oi(사랑과 죄)』, 『Ree Sim(이심)』, 『Kwang Pun(광분)』, 『Sam Dae』 continually. This period, his novels showed us a strong strain of social comment, based on intense observation of korean middle class citizen life. By this point of view, his novel 『Sam Dae』 was became generally known best fiction in Korea.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Korean words ‘Sam Dae’ means ‘three generation’. So some modern korean novel theorists were understood this Yeom Sang Sup’s novel is family fiction or family history novel. Clearly 『Sam Dae』 takes seriously some generation gap among the grandfather, father and his son.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;In 『Sam Dae』, There are many character’s appearance. They conflict with each other. And also they roll as focalizers. Accordingly they are subject person and object person in same discourse time. By the Reason, Yeom Sang Sup&quot;s novel 『Sam Dae』seems to me ‘polyphonic novel’.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Polyphony is very famous Bakhtin&quot;s term. In 『Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics』, he argued that the primary criteria of the polyphonic text is the independence of characters from their narrator.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;I think, many character of 『Sam Dae』 are fully independent from narrator of other characters ideologically. So Yeom Sang Sup’s novel 『Sam Dae』 is recocognized to me very polyphonic novel.