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The Ecological Imagination of Korean Writer, Oh Yungsoo

Main themes in novels by Oh Yungsoo are ① 'Assimilation to nature', ② 'Neighbor-making', and ③ 'Community formation'. He appears to be in the ①　→　②　→　③ order as a whole in the relation to about 30 years' writing period. It is because in the early novels, he is much superior at the nature assimilation and in the late ones, he focuses on the 'community' problems. But these themes may well show different little by little in the method but to realize certain writer's consciousness not to distinguish it. They say that he dreamt of nature assimilation based on the deep ecology or the taoistic imagination in the early novels, but desired community formation as the social ecology or the anarchistic imagination according to become late novels. Therefore, his consistent writer's consciousness was on the ecological world view, but was inclined to attract to the social ecology. Novels by Oh Yungsoo was devoted themselves to forming a community without class discord among the members as living with a warm neighborhood in the world which nature and human are not separated according to this writer's consciousness. This community shows strongly the utopian image. But, Oh Yungsoo doesn't show certainly a prospective for the utopian practice. It is because he deals with modern civilization but is poor at realistic development in plot.