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A Study on the Catholicism in Korean Modern NovelYi, Dong-haThis study investigates several works on Catholicism in modern Korean novels. Most Korean novels which discuss Catholicism focus on the history of the Catholic church or its system, not on the theological aspects of Catholicism. The works which focus on the former, the realistic aspects of the religion, vary in their literary quality. In the cases when the authors dwell only on the division of good and evil, the literary quality is low. Also, if the authors describe the clergymen within the same restrictions as do humble people, their novels become conventional. In contrast, if the writers try to face the reality of complex human beings and the world, their work achieves more literary success, as in Seo, Kiwon's A Statue of Maria Made of Chosun White China, and Kim, Youngha's Black Flower. Another novel by Kim, Young-ha, The Man Who Sold his Shadow, also succeeds by breaking conventional images of clergymen.Both Seo's Maria and Kim's Black Flower develop the story by focusing on the realistic aspects of Catholicism. In addition, they also appropriately reflect theological problems. Despite these works and their accomplishment, Korean novels on Catholicism are small in number and are not varied in theme. If Korean novelists want to write novels about Catholicism, they need to broaden their scope.
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Catholicism, commandments, authority, shamanism, division of good and evil, writer's consciousness, modern novel
