1920년대 중반 ‘기자 형상화’ 소설의 진가(眞價)

Abstract

This paper intends to try a more active approach and interpretation of the impact of Yeom Sang-seop's journalist activities, which have been attracting attention by researchers, on the creation of novels. As a journalist on “fact/object” and “fictional/subjective”, which have historically been a debate between journalism and reporting, I would like to analyze Yeom Sang-seop's understanding and judgment, and examine the influence of the artist's creative worldview and work in the mid-1920s, the formation of realism literature. In other words, the starting point of this study is that Yeom Sang-seop's worries due to the tension between “object” and “subject” required by journalism in dealing with specific cases have been transferred to fiction creation. By exploring the process in which “objective” and “subjective” intersect and the position as a reporter and identity as a writer intervene to form a novel, I would like to confirm the “true value” of the journalist-shaped novel and approach the source of Yeom Sang-seop's realism literature.