This thesis attempts to examine the meaning of <Solgeo> series that is prescribed to the romantic-artist novel written by Kim, Dong-ri. These works are placed at the prototype of the early period and a turn point to the middle period of Kim's. He failed to try to solve the problem of art through the introduction of religion in these works. And he gave up the romanticism realizing the impossibility of poeticizing of life(die Poetisierung des Lebens). But his quest for the resolution of this problem directs his literature to advance forwards. It means that he testified his own literary theory as the quest for ultimate form of life through the romantic novel. In <Solgeo> series as the romantic artist novel, the point to be paid attention is the contradiction of the arts with the life. And it's a dilemmatic problem as a romantic irony to him how to overcome the situation that art doesn't exist any more. For the salvation of life in the arts, he mixed up arts with religion and composed the ending form of work with compromising the two realm. In short, he got out of concreteness and materiality of everyday life through the religion so that he could acquired the pure art. But this progress lead to the weakness of narration in his works because of indulgence in reflection and poetic atmosphere of the romanticism of disillusionment. In <Ingyeoseol> and <Wanmiseol>, he imported the introspective activities that make possible of consideration of the relations between art and everyday life. But in these works so far as his viewpoint to the reality and human life is introspective, activities are the failed activities. As a result, Kim, Dong-ri introduced in next works the real activities that make the novel related with the reality.

This thesis attempts to examine the meaning of <Solgeo> series that is prescribed to the romantic-artist novel written by Kim, Dong-ri. These works are placed at the prototype of the early period and a turn point to the middle period of Kim's. He failed to try to solve the problem of art through the introduction of religion in these works. And he gave up the romanticism realizing the impossibility of poeticizing of life(die Poetisierung des Lebens). But his quest for the resolution of this problem directs his literature to advance forwards. It means that he testified his own literary theory as the quest for ultimate form of life through the romantic novel. In <Solgeo> series as the romantic artist novel, the point to be paid attention is the contradiction of the arts with the life. And it's a dilemmatic problem as a romantic irony to him how to overcome the situation that art doesn't exist any more. For the salvation of life in the arts, he mixed up arts with religion and composed the ending form of work with compromising the two realm. In short, he got out of concreteness and materiality of everyday life through the religion so that he could acquired the pure art. But this progress lead to the weakness of narration in his works because of indulgence in reflection and poetic atmosphere of the romanticism of disillusionment. In <Ingyeoseol> and <Wanmiseol>, he imported the introspective activities that make possible of consideration of the relations between art and everyday life. But in these works so far as his viewpoint to the reality and human life is introspective, activities are the failed activities. As a result, Kim, Dong-ri introduced in next works the real activities that make the novel related with the reality.