1960년대 전후소설의 대립 구조와 주제 의식 - 『광장』ㆍ『방앗골 革命』ㆍ『시장과 전장』을 중심으로

Conflict Structure and Thematic Consciousness in Post-Korean War Novels in the 1960s - Focused on Gwangjang, Bangatgol Hyeokmyeong and Sijanggwa Jeonjang -

&nbsp;&nbsp;Choi In-Hoon’s Gwangjang, Oh Yoo-Gwon’s Bangatgol Hyeokmyeong and Park Gyeong-Ri’s Sijanggwa Jeonjang published in the early 1960s shows the process of internalization as a literary response to the Korean War. The three novels did not concentrate on the misery of the war itself. Rather, they expanded the scope of consciousness to the division of the Korean Peninsula and conflict structure. We analyzed how the pattern of conflict structure are expressed in the characteristics of the works such as the situation demanding a choice between two(Gwangjang), the confrontational background of the upper village and the lower village(Bangatgol Hyeokmyeong) and the contrast between the market and the war and the theory that both are right and wrong(Sijanggwa Jeonjang). In addition, we examined thematic consciousness derived inevitably from the conflict structure.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The problem from which Lee Myeong-Joon’s choice of the neutralist nation could not escape was the objective situation of ‘death.’ This is an issue that must be discussed although it is meaningful in literature history as a rejection of dichotomously confronting ideology. That writer Choi In-Hoon tried to give new meanings to Lee Myeong-Joon’s death through repeated revisions is also considered an effort to overcome the limitation of ‘neutralist nation=death’ in some way.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The problem that Bangatgol Hyeokmyeong is faced with in giving shape to the Korean War by putting ‘the upper village’ and ‘the lower village’ antagonistic to each other is also an unrealistic element resulting from the self-sufficient space created in the story. This work also involves anachronistic idealism that tries to stitch up the wound of the division through polygamy. In Sijanggwa Jeonjang, cubicalness is achieved beyond simple contrast between ‘market’ and ‘war’ but it leaves the problematic attitude of deferring judgment of the real situation or viewing both as right and wrong.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;A problem inherent in the three works is delicate discrepancy between the objective realities and the realities described in the stories. The discrepancy may be considered positively from the aspect of technique or can be pointed out as a mistake from the writers’ immaturity. That is, this is a matter between the structure and thematic consciousness of the novels.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Lastly, what we need to think once more is that a discrepancy between the objective realities and fictional realities should be attributed to the writer but part of it can be attributed to the historical situation of the age. Considering this, in so-called meta-novels, namely, novels in which the writer is the main character, pursuit for writing itself can narrow the gap between the objective realities and fictional realities.