러시아의 길: 19세기 러시아 문학과 철도 – 가르신의 단편 「신호」를 따라

Abstract

The railway, which was born in the 19th century, when the old and the new, tradition and reformation coexisted, was used as a variety of materials and themes in the lyrical and narrative literary genres, attracting the attention of contemporary people. These trends have been observed specially in Russia, a country of railroads, and russian literary scholars sensed that the railroad would lead to a new idea of life and a new perception of the infinite space and time of Russia.<BR> In this study, the relationship between Russian society and railroads in the 19th century was examined by studying how railroad-related materials appeared in literary works after railroads appeared in Russia in 1837. Among the various works, special attention was paid to the short story of Vsevolod Garshin(В.М. Гаршин, 1855~1888) 「Signal(Сигнал)」(1887), to verify how the railway was recognized and expressed in reality and literature respectively. The reason why this work was selected as the subject of analysis is that, it was published half a century after the appearance of the railway in Russia and Garshin actually worked as secretary of the Railway Bureau Association from early 1883 to 1887. This is because he has experience in railroad work, and the biographical facts of experts in this field are reflected in the work. In addition, it is also because, in the middle and late 19th century, a sense of mission as an intellectual at that time about the current situation in Russia and the path that Russia should take in the future is unfolding in this work with the railway as the main subject.<BR> In this work, Garshin shows the true value for life through the subject of railroads in a time when coexist various values and gives signals that Russia’s right direction for the present and the future is not antagonism and conflict, separation and deviation, but harmonization of different values, coexistence through integration and reconciliation, and going to a historical forward direction.