초록 열기/닫기 버튼
Hyun, JinGun's first novel "The Equator[赤道]"(1934) is a complex of diverse features that one may consider it as a disunited work. On the one hand, it reveals anti-Japanese theme symbolically, and on the other,it shows melodramatic characteristics of a popular novel. These seemingly contradictory aspects lead to directly-opposed valuations among previous studies. But such aspects of this novel can be regarded as an achievement of camouflaged political criticism of the reality under the Japanese Imperialism adapting itself to the colonial circumstances. This novel makes use of three narrative strategies to achieve this aim; in terms of reflection, it makes clear the limits of political freedom under Japanese colonial rule; by representative figuration, it unfolds the bourgeoisie's decadent everyday life; and it shows anti-Japanese theme-effects by means of expression method. These three narrative strategies are made possible on the basis of 'privately compressed spatial form' in the instances of character structure and narrative structure. This success of expressing socio-political theme-effects attracting the readers' attention in the era that made hard the attempts of criticism of realism against Japanese colonial rule marks the position and significance of "The Equator" in the history of modern Korean novel.
키워드열기/닫기 버튼
Hyun, JinGun, The Equator[赤道], spatial form, disunited work,reflection-representation-expression
