Novelist Park Tae-Won is a leading modernist and technician of the 1930s. How was the technician born in colonial period? It is a question not only for Park Tae-Won but also for most of modernists in those days. This study aims to investigate the proc...
Novelist Park Tae-Won is a leading modernist and technician of the 1930s. How was the technician born in colonial period? It is a question not only for Park Tae-Won but also for most of modernists in those days. This study aims to investigate the process of building of one novelist by examining Park’s reading experience of foreign literary works.
During the 1920s, Park Tae-Won had made a great effort to read foreign literature and had started to write shot stories. In his training days as a novelist, he read huge amount of literary works from various foreign countries. But unfortunately the books which he read was works of Japanese translation. He read selected works and anthologies from Japan. In this study, it has been traced the list of books which he read and supposed the form of the books. The work was possible only because Park Tae-Won had written about his reading experience very concretely.
According to his documents about reading foreign literary works, he especially loved English literature. Then he had tried to translate a few English works, for example Ernest Hemingway’s “The killers”, Katherine Mansfield’s “A cup of tea”, and had published these works in newspaper. At the same time he had written several short stories his own, then the works of his early days had many signs and marks of foreign literature especially in style.