It is concluded that the modern historical novel is the one that is composed of the past events ever re-illuminated historically for more than a generation by distinct historical consciousness.
The modern historical novel has been written much in the...
It is concluded that the modern historical novel is the one that is composed of the past events ever re-illuminated historically for more than a generation by distinct historical consciousness.
The modern historical novel has been written much in the awakening of oneself and the resentment toward the enemy, originated from the historical literature in the era of chosun Dynasty, since the great suffering of Two Great Wars (Im-Jin& Byung-Ja), and also has been connected with biographical factors in its structure, developing into the characterized biographical literature of the Enlightened Age. As the result of these facts, the historical truth was expressed differently with oneanother by writers in selecting a subject matter and making its process, because of the inclination to their ingritiation with both national consciousness and people.
In historical novels by Yi Kwang-Soo, their subjects are exposured in a simple way because his works had the strong impression on the struggle between Good and Evil. And in his works, heroes and heroines were made individual' s characterse as far more idealized without any cosideration of creating person's peculiarity. So his works are thought to have resulted from the writer's resolution for the persuit of national existence, and the awakening of the national consciousness.
Park Jong-Hwa's historical novels, which were written on the purpose of resisting against injustice and arousing the spirit of people, intended to take his participation in reality through his works. His creative activity, which had awakened the people' s consciouseness and had resisted against the Japanese colonial policy, is believed to mean "a strong resistance against an absolute authority." This means that the resistable attitudes toward the unjust behavior of the absolute authority must have been admitted as the substances of reconstructing the national pride and identity.
Kim Dong-In seems not to have well described the real situation of the days with his own cognition-standard because a leading character was focussed on a hero and a heroine with the omnipotence by strong individualism. And his works do not seem to have the exact objectivity by unfolding the historical events with his subjective judgement.
As far as Hyun Jin-Gun's historical novels go, it is evident that his works showed their truth and reality about the historical events in one of his wellknown works, "Moon Young Tap" (Tower with no shade) and that there must be a great contribution to historical novels, with common people putting in an appearance in the work by his peculiar skill.
Historical novels by Yoon Baek-Nam include not only the rapid progress of the events, but also the addition of inhumane factors. So they do not seem to be out of the territory of popular novels in his literacy stream from the standpoint of treating the events for amusement.
Korean modern novels have expressed much interst in all both the internal world and the external world of work, and they own the writer's spirit in plain mode. And it is clear that they have contributed themselves to enlarging the boundaries of Korean literature, devolping into the proper form necessary to the cultivation of the national emotion and the traditional elements as well as taking the same pace with the stream of modern literature.