방기환 소설의 ‘순수’ 연구

Abstract

What is remarkable about Bang Ki-hwan’s novels of the 1950s is the ‘gaze’ that interprets the tragic era. This is because in his novels, the gaze that recognizes and interprets the times is through the ‘other’ rather than the ‘subject.’ ‘Children’ and ‘animals’ in Bang Ki-hwan’s novels exist as ‘objects of innocence,’ which are used as a device to reveal the grim era of the 1950s, not for the sake of an idealized worldview of humans. In other words, Bang Ki-hwan does not directly talk about the tragic era of the 1950s, but presents the contradictory reality of war and the reality of private human life through the refracted gaze of innocent objects such as ‘children’ and ‘animals.’ This study examines Bang Ki-hwan’s short stories from the 1950s, which have little been studied until now, and discusses the inner life of human beings that were concealed through innocent objects that transcend the tragedy of war and the consciousness of the times embodied in them.