『별건곤』의 순수 ‘소설’과 ‘취미독물’의 상관성 연구

Abstract

This article analyzes the correlation between the fictional works and micellaneous readings for pleasure published in a literary magazine of Pyŏlgŏngon. It also aims to examine the expressions of the identity in the popular magazine. Although the magazine was inclined toward the ideas based on socialism, it did publish several works of pure novel from the first volume to the seventh volume. But this tendency was changed when the major articles began to deal with various readings related to leisure and everyday life to meet the new demand of the public reader. On the other hand, pure novels were no longer found since the eighth volume. As for this reason of disappearance of pure novels, the Japanese censorship policy played an important role, but it does not fully explain what caused to change the taste of the public reader.BR Japanese publication law was changed after 1930. As it was only allowed to publish the pure literature, and the Pyŏlgŏngon has to turn the attention to the events of the day not closely related to politics. The strategy taken by the magazine was not compatible with the public readers who did not welcome the changed policy and pure literature. In conclusion, the pure novels published in Pyŏlgŏngon reveal the fact that the magazine’s contribution to giving birth to another literary magazine of Haesung that treats the new current affairs. The intermediate function of the pure novels in Pyŏlgŏngon therefore serves as a site that reveals the negotiations between the popular magazine with the culture policy.