지브란 칼릴 지브란의 생애와 작품 세계

Jibran Khalil Jibran's life and literature

Jibran Khalil Jibran, the most representative writer among 'Adab al-Mahjar', has enjoyed world-wide reputation until today. He had an important effect not only on Arab and American writers in America but also on his contemporary Arab writers to give birth to the modern Arabic literature. Jibran Khalil Jibran is the most well known writer among modern Arab writers even in Korea. A lot of his works including "The Prophet" had been translated and published into Korean since the sixties by several Korean writers. Unfortunately, Jibran's writings had never been translated directly from Arabic into Korean or studied by Arabic literature scholars in Korea in spite of the fact he is an Arab writer. So, this paper will be dealt with three sides mainly relied upon Arabic materials; first, his life and women that had been rich soil for his literature, secondly, his literary works including novel, short stories, essays, and prose poetry, and thirdly, his thoughts and philosophy like romanticism, Sufism, socio-political reform thoughts, and his nationalism based on humanity.