이종명 소설의 등장인물들에게 나타나는 ‘금기’와 ‘불온’ 양상 연구

Abstract

For the characters in Lee Jong-myung’s novels, Lee Jong-myung was a leading figure in the founding of the Nine People’s Society, a literary organization that is indispensable in the history of modern literature. However, Lee Jong-myung would leave the group shortly afterward. “In the fall of that year, Jong-myung and Yoo-young, who were the main promoters of hypocrisy, left the group,” says Choi, suggesting that Lee Jong-myung was one of the first to form the group, but he left before the group’s activities began in earnest, though it is not clear why.
 Lee Jong-myung is also one of the writers for whom there is no detailed information such as the year of death or hometown. The reason for this lack of information is that Lee Jong-myung’s work was somewhat outside of the mainstream literary scene at the time.
 Contrary to these evaluations, Lee Jong-myung’s works have their own unique world. There are two main characteristics of Lee Jong-myung’s works: first, they are detailed, as if watching a movie. This is especially evident in Lee’s feature-length novel Aegeum Hell, where the descriptions of the Sambang Yaksu, the newspaper office, the streets of Gyeongseong, and the road to Cheonggyesa Temple are described as clearly as if we were watching a movie.
 Another characteristic of Lee Jong-myung’s work is the presence of heavy and dark subjects, which are considered ‘taboo’ in society. Drugs, suicide, abortion, molestation, stalking, and checking the virginity of dead women are among the provocative and taboo subjects in Lee’s work. This study examines the ‘taboos’ in Lee Jong-myung’s works through the short stories “People of the Good” (1929), “Dr. Choi’s Conscience” (1932), and the full-length novel “Aegean Hell” (1933), where this tendency is particularly pronounced, and in doing so, identifies features of Lee Jong-myung’s literature that have been devalued by Lee Moo-young, Han Seol-ya, and others.I study the aspects of ‘taboo’ and ‘unpleasantness’.