The Traveling to Shang-hai and Siberia in 1914 and Autobiographical Textuality of Warmheartedness

Seo Eunhye

This paper aims to demonstrate how the life of the author influence on the process of writing the novel, comparing various essays with his famous novel Warmheartedness(유정). Kwangsoo Lee wrote the novel on Jo-seon Ilbo from Octorber, 1 to December 31. But not only the experience of traveling to Man-ju in 1933, but also the memory of Shang-hai in 1913~1914 strongly influences on the motifs and the plots of the novel in various ways. There are many characters in that novel, including the main character Choi-Seok(최석), Jeong-im(정임), Russian Officer R, Another R and his wife. The author of this novel choose traveling narrative, and let the hero meet many 'small' characters during that travel. This traveling narrative of main character represent the experience of the author dismissed from O-san School in 1913, and the character such as Russian Officer R represents the feeing of rage and disappointment of the author Kwangsoo Lee at that time. The essay such as To The World of Oblivion(잊음의 나라로) can be a grounded text. The implied Author, however, still emphasize on the value of commitment to the Jo-seon by arranging contrasting opinion of Officer R and Choi-seok to the motherland Cho-seon. Choi-seok is the character who is the ideal role model in aspects to the 'right' attitude to the Cho-seon by the author Kwangsoo Lee. The author wants to show the value of the attitude of nonresistence through creating the Choi-seok. The essay such as The Type Which I Belong (내가 속할 유형) shows the belief to the value of nonresistence in making and keeping new community. We can also find the memory of patriots such as Yi-Kab(이갑) who the author really met in the traveling to the Siberia in 1914. There is the scene which Choi-Seok passed the river Song-Wha(송화강), and he confesses on failed dream of building new community around there. The scene also related to the dream of real author Yi, who participated in the Group of Development(수양동우회). Bilding new community outside the colonial Cho-seon is continual projects of the Group of Development(수양동 우회). In this way, the traveling narrative and certain scenes in the novel Warmheartedness(유정) is closely related to the experience of Kwangsoo Lee.

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