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In novels by Park Wan Seo, since dailiness is connected with her 'experience of modernization' in the great fetters of the history, modernity is both a major theme and a keyword for examining her diachronic variations. A viewpoint of the modernity, in '70's novels by Park Wan Seo, shows a critical aspect even containing heckling and contempt. However, such a critical viewpoint is conspiring with the modern logic as the 'critical reflection' to deny the old and affirm the new. However, entering '80s, straight looking into the coexistence of contradictions in the modern times allows a paradoxical angle on the modernity seeing ambivalence rather than the dichotomy of affirmation/negation. Such a viewpoint becomes an opportunity for recognizing the transition to the flexible modernity changed newly rather than criticism or denial. Such recognition makes the author maintain an attitude of 'Verwindung(metaphysical overcoming)' having an alternative instead of denying the modernity. So, in novels after 2000s, characters come to be as a 'state of twist' that exist in the modern times but make its internal power implode. As such, by continual recollection and memory through variations of a viewpoint on the modernity, novels by Park Wan Seo come to take a role of An-denken for re-tracing critical moments of the modern history.