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The purpose of this study is to discuss the causes and substitutes of economical alienation of post-war society in 1950s novels. In the Preferment(榮轉) written by Lee, Moo-yeong, the alienation from ‘human nature’ and ‘others’ is disclosed, showing the distorted vocational
ethics of post-war Korean society and power structure in an electric power company through the power struggle. In the Jang’s Family(張氏一家) written by Ryu, Joo-hyeon, the alienation from ‘organization’ and ‘family’ is disclosed, showing concealed truth of military and political organization and ethical corruption of high society through the characters. Kim, Kwang-sik
disclosed the alienation in the everyday life through the ‘labor’ and ‘alienated consumption’ based on the certain spatial background, a bank and a printing office, in his works A Landscape of Chair(椅子 風景) and House 213(二一三號 住宅). However, they are more developmental than the works uttered previously, because the heros in the works objectively recognizes the
situations surrounded them and prepares some plans to overcome the situations, even though they are reckless. Kim, Dong-nip shows characters who could not escape from the influence of war in his work Public Officials(大衆管理). They alienate themselves and stick to a desire for material gain to overcome their anxiety. And the writer presents that a way to overcome one’s
anxiety is ‘recovery of selfidentity’ through self-expression. It is meaningful that the heros began to understand an aspect of the capitalistic alienation and to recognize human nature recovery as a method to overcome the alienation. The novels uttered above should be systematically studied more. It means that the discussion about the post-war novels has not yet to deal with the
economical alienation because it has focused on just war itself. Therefore, this study can make the objects for the discussion of the post-war novels various, and can be a chance to establish a balanced viewpoint about the post-war novels.