한무숙 전후 단편소설 연구 = A Study on Han Mu-suk's Post War Short Novels

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In the 1950s, due to the tragic event of the Korean War, social instability, human isolation and collective nihilism prevailed Korean society. The experiences of the war were expressed into existential writers' consciousness to literarily embody existential anxiety attributed to absurd reality and mental crises. Han Mu-suk's short novels written in the 1950s also show the mercilessness and inhumane order of the post war society thorough main characters that have experienced the war. They also describe individuals under the crisis of losing self-identity and their feelings of isolation and nihilism. Han's novels published after the war are significant in that they show how individuals perceiving an absurd and unstabilized society look at and explore themselves, and their willingness to exist. While thoroughly and vividly describing the reality of violent suppression imposed by exponential factors, nihilism and death prevailed in the post war society, the novels also show individuals' loss of self-identity and their willingness to overcome human isolation by scrutinizing human beings' existential anguish.
"Anxiety" felt by individuals in Post war Korean society was expressed into the damages and scars of the war and nihilism, languor and obsession with death which are attributed to such damages and scars. These are described in Han's short novels published in the 1950s. Those suffering from the scars of the war, portrayed in Han's novels, experience obsession with death, nihilism, languor, isolation, delusion, self-torture and pathologic signs of self-disruption, and perceive life only partially with "anxiety" and live alone in the fear of being isolated. The characters of Han's short novels of the 50s also try to look at their physical and mental scars of the war, loneliness and isolation through the examination of others other than themselves.
Han Mu-suk's efforts as a writer to prove and find herself by overcoming isolation and seeking salvation are embodied in her novels through "being conscious of others", the process of realizing one is with others. Interestingly, this makes the readers of her novels realize that it is important to look into their inner anxiety and for those overcoming an existential crisis to realize they exist with other people.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 서론 = 1
• 1. 연구목적 및 연구방법 = 1
• 2. 선행 연구 검토 = 7
• Ⅱ. 전후 세대 문인과 1950년대 전후소설의 실존주의 = 14
• 1. 전쟁 체험과 전후세대 문인의 창작경향 = 14
• 2. 1950년대 전후 소설의 실존주의 = 18
• Ⅲ. 파편화된 전후 사회 인식과 대타의식에 의한 소외 극복 = 24
• 1. 파편화된 삶의 인식과 소외에의 공포 = 24
• 2. 대타의식에 의한 소외 극복과 구원의 길 = 37
• Ⅳ. 결론 = 46
• 참고문헌 = 48
• Abstract = 51