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Park Yeon-hee's novels may be summarized as ‘impoverished daily life, emphasis on history and reality, national identity, loss of hometown, making of hometown, and realistic imagination with criticism on the system’. Park Yeon-hee, a displaced writer who defected to South Korea, attempted to find his hometown and to create his own hometown. Under the continued territorial division, his pursuit of hometown was modified to something of creating hometown. Park Yeon-hee exercised his imagination of criticism on the reality, the overall contradiction of South Korea, to make the country new hometown. Especially, his novels belong to literature of resistant testimonies pungently criticizing the power of statism and the violence of anti-communism. Park Yeon-hee expressed his own view that the history should evolve from the perspective of western democracy and nationalism. His novels, stressing national identity, maintained a critical position against communism in North Korea and the arrogant USA. His realistic literature which had actively introduced political incidents to novels stood uniquely in the post-war literature where an autistic pursuit of internal world and anti-communism prevailed. His critical realism testifying to the history and reality of his time parted with retrogressive nihilism of literature in the 1950s and worked as a bridge to engagement literature in the 1960s.
