This study aims to search the meaning of postwar korean novels. Commonly postwar korean novels are criticized that they are too abstract to make the world better. But this study has little different thought. It thinks that abstractness is the result o...
This study aims to search the meaning of postwar korean novels. Commonly postwar korean novels are criticized that they are too abstract to make the world better. But this study has little different thought. It thinks that abstractness is the result of the observation for the real life after war. Though too much abstractness of perceiving reality could have hihg-lisk that is unreal. So this study has to prove that those postwar korean novels’ abstract thought is real. This study is going to prove by analysing Chang Yong-Hak’s novels which shows us the most distinguishing point of postkoreanwar period’s reality, that the abstractness which the writer shows us is not just a pose. For proving this, this study focus on the way of narrating. The way of narrating is not only the result of consciousness but also the expression of unconciousness. For that this study pay attention to the narrater of the novels who shows very interesting characters. This study is going to show that the abstractness of postwar korean novels is the result of the experience of passing by the unbelievable incident which called war.