This study focused on one of the characteristics of parody novels - reflection on realties. That is, it investigated the opinions of writers who reflected and criticized their contemporary realities or social aspects ideologically through parody novel...
This study focused on one of the characteristics of parody novels - reflection on realties. That is, it investigated the opinions of writers who reflected and criticized their contemporary realities or social aspects ideologically through parody novels. The purpose of this study was to reveal such characteristics of parody novels in the 1960s based on the short stories written by Lee Ho-cheol and Park Tae-sun and analyze their reality-reflective attitudes and inclination.
Reading and analyzing appropriately the parody novels of Lee Ho-cheol and Park Tae-sun who have been regarded as prominent writers of the literature based on progressive and socially critical realism in the 1960s would broaden their literary domain and properly evaluate the diversity that their novels possessed. Furthermore, it would be able to firmly establish the grounds for the reality-reflective characteristics of parody novels in the 1960s.
「Tal-sayukja Hoeui (A Meeting of Post-breeders)」published in 1966 was a work with a noticeably sharp satirical spirit through a fable and clearly revealed the spirit of criticizing realities by Lee Ho-cheol who concentrated more than anyone else on social efficiency of literature.
In「Jakka-jimang (a Desire to Become a Writer)」written Park Tae-sun, Lee Gwang-su appeared as a speaker and the work dealt with the relationship between Lee Gwang-su and Choi Seo-hae in the 1930s and showed the self-examination of what literary recognition and practice one should have as an intellectual and novelist. The first volume out of Park Tae-sun's「Samdu-macha(A Three-horse Carriage)」 series was the novel that parodied Heosaeng-jeon. He clearly showed that not an intellectual like Heosaeng but the mass of the people such as Oechon-dong people had strong vitality and its spontaneous and resultant will to reform realities. Moreover, he believed that the writer as an intellectual should depict the lives of people in general vividly and inform others of them and practice the literature, in which the writer should stay with people while being on their side and make efforts to create a society living together with them. The parody novels by Park Tae-sun once again conspicuously demonstrated that he clearly recognized writer's consciousness and his calling as an intellectual and novelist in the given period and society.