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본 연구에서는 『마인』에만 집중되었던 식민지 시기 김내성 소설에 대한 연구 관행을 반성하고, 중일전쟁 이후의 탐정소설인 「백가면」(1937), 『마인』(1939), 「태풍」(1942 -43), 「매국노」(1943-44)의 일련의 대중소설을 하나의 계열체로 간주하며 검토하였다. 식민지 후반기에 유행하였던 스파이 담론과 일본 제국의 이데올로기였던 대동아공영권론에 부응하는 김내성의 스파이-탐정소설은 식민자에 대한 모방과 새로운 주체 형성의 욕망이 투영된 대중 서사이다. 특히 본 연구가 중점적으로 분석한 「태풍」은 『매일신보』(1942.11.21～1943.5.2)에 연재된 후 1944년 단행본으로 간행되어 초판 8천여부가 한 달여만에 매진된 인기 대중소설이었다. 이 소설의 내용은 식민지 조선만이 아니라 영국, 프랑스, 인도, 중국 상해 등의 세계 도처를 배경으로 조선인(일본인), 중국인, 서구인 등의 다채로운 인물이 등장 신무기를 둘러싼 첩보전을 벌이는 이야기이다. 이 소설을 통해서 전쟁이 확대시킨 지정학적 상상력과 대동아 전쟁의 이념이 추리라는 대중서사의 코드를 통해서 어떻게 대중과 접속하게 되는가를 확인할 수 있다. 진주만 공습, 싱가폴 함락 등으로 이어지는 이른바 ‘緖戰의 승리’의 열기 속에서 창작된 이 소설은 ‘대동아’의 이념을 그대로 재현한다는 점에서 ‘친일적’이라고 비판받아야 마땅하지만, 동시에 ‘대동아’의 중심, 세계 재편의 물리력의 핵심에 조선과 조선인 과학자를 배치함으로써 조선을 새로운 세계의 주체로 기입하고자 하는 식민지인의 식민주체로의 신생의 욕망을 읽을 수 있다는 점에서 식민지 말기 한국문학의 제국적 주체 형성의 문법을 공유하고 있다. 해방 이후 김내성은 연애소설의 대가로 새로운 명성을 획득했지만, 『청춘극장』(1949)을 비롯한 잡지 『아리랑』 소재의 「붉은 나비」(1955)에 이르기까지 식민지를 배경으로 하는 스파이 탐정소설의 영향은 여전히 지속되고 있다.
This study sought to turn from a conventional practice of literary researches into Nae-seong Kim, a Korean modern novelist, which focused only on A Haunted Man , a typical and famous one of his novels written during period of colonized Korea under the rule of imperial Japan. In addition, this study also sought to review his popular novels such as White Mask (1937), A Haunted Man (1939), Typhoon (1942 ～43) and Traitor (1943～44), which are recognized as a series of detective novels written by Kim after the Sino-Japanese War. Kim's spy-detective novels complied with discourses about spy and those about the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere(大東亞共榮圈) as ideology of imperial Japan, which were widely popularized and propagandized in the late of colonial period. His spy-detective novels are recognized as popular epic works that sought to make a model of colonizer and project desires to form a new subject. In particular, Typhoon , one of Kim's novels, as analyzed intensively in this study, was originally serialized in the Korea Daily News(每日新報) (Nov. 21, 1942 to May 2, 1943) and was published as a separate volume in 1944. Then, Typhoon was ranked as such a popular novel as about total 8,000 volumes of its first edition were sold out just in one month after the first publication. Indeed, this novel deserves re-highlighting in the sense that it contains a pile of major characteristics revealed by Kim's detective novels, and also witnesses an aspect of popular novel readers' consciousness in the late of colonial period. But it has been not analyzed or addressed at all in previous studies. The Typhoon has its major framework of epic novel that depicts intelligence war for latest weapons among countries with the appearance of various national characters(Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Western) against a background of worldwide locations like United Kingdom, France, India and Shanghai(China) beyond the boundary of colonized Korea. It indicates how the geopolitical imagination expanded by war and the ideology of the Greater East Asian War could meet the popular tastes with ‘detective’, a code of popular epic literature. This novel was created under the influence of triumph called ‘the victory of early war’ involving Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and surrender of Singapore. So it deserves criticism for ‘pro-Japanese novel’ in the sense that it reproduces the imperial Japanese ideology of ‘the Greater East Asia’, but it shares a literary rule of composition for creation of subjective personality revealed by Korean modern literature in the late colonial period, because it boldly deploys Korea and Korean scientists in a core of ‘the Greater East Asia’ and physical power for reorganizing world order and thereby reveals a desire for colonized men as subjects of colonized country to take the initiative to build up Korea as a subjective member of new world. After the 1945 Liberation of Korea, Nae-seong Kim successfully took a new reputation as a master of Korean modern romance. However, his early spy-detective novels against a background of colonized Korea still had influenced his follow-up epic works such as Story of the Youth and Red Butterfly (1955) based on Arirang .
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Nae-seong Kim, Typhoon, spy (discourses), detective, counterintelligence, the Greater East Asia, imaginative geography, detective techniques, imperial subject, gender
