노동 소설의 새로운 모색

A study on groping for a new labor-novel

&nbsp;&nbsp;This paper studies a possibility of a new Korean labor-novel. Korean labor-novel had first come on the history of korean literature in 1920&quot;s. And from 1920&quot;s to the 2000&quot;s, the korean labor-novel has been repeated appearing and disappearing. But korean labor-novel becomes sluggish in our period.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;This paper examined significance of literature as a movement, focusing literary nature of literary text, because the basic proposition literature as a movement is still valid in our period. For this reason, this paper focuses labor-novels produced in 1980&quot;s and in our period. Especially, this paper did prior treat the 2000&quot;s labor-novelist, Lee Jaeyong&quot;s labor-novels ; A Young laborer ; By the way, did the boy stopped crying?<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;In our perion a boundary of a labor-novel is gradually tarnished. Thus a new concept of a labor-novel being well balanced in our perion is demanded. 1980&quot;s labor-novels had many faults ; a standardization of characters, simplification of narrative structure, riskiness of degrading literature to a political instrument, and so on.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;A new labor-novel in our period is requested for reflecting contemporary social realities, especially contemporary labor realities. Jae-yong Lee &quot;s labor-novels ; A Young laborer ; By the way, did the boy stopped crying? are a guide for A gropong for a new labour novel in our period.