내부망명자의 고독과 성찰—안수길과 ‘이산’의 경험에 관하여Solitude and Reflection of Inner Emigration: Regarding Ahn Soo-gil and the Experience of “Diaspora”

Abstract

ABSTRACT The premise of this article is that the sense of emigration was the most important way of thinking in Ahn Su-gil’s late life. He was a kind of “inner emigrant.” Actually, he had never ever tried to emigrate to another country, and also had not been oppressed to decide to escape from Korea. But, he always dreamed to escape to another country. Audiences need to read carefully his last short story 망명시인 “An Emigrant Poet” to understand his sense of emigration. In the story, one can see the surface and deep structure of the writer’s consciousness. There was a genealogy of desire for emigration in Ahn’s works. 갱생기 “A Rebirth,” 두 개의 발정 “Two Beginning,” “IRAQ 에서 온 불온문서Seditious Documents from IRAQ” belong to that genealogy. Ahn Su-gil’s sense of emigration originated in his life in Manchuria. In Manchuria, he had a special experience that taught him the “outness” and “otherness.” There are many Korean writers who have lived in Manchuria in the Japanese colonial era and returned after the end of World War II. But Ahn Su-gil is unique because he showed us a new horizon for the description of the Korean diaspora and settlement during the 20th century.