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A study of Mourning and Melancholoy of the Fiction of Sohn Chang-Seop in 1950S
Chunwon Research journal
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Chunwon Research journal
2018, (13), pp.457-495
Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
Research Area : Korean Literature
2018, (13), pp.457-495
Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
Research Area : Korean Literature
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Son Chang-seop It is no exaggeration to say that the main subject of literature is in the 1950s works of war. His work, which deals with the tragedy of postwar reality, shows the destruction of the destructed world and humanity represented by a dark and dismal atmosphere, a pathological human image, an insult to humanity, extreme nihilism. The reason why mourning and melancholy are important in the reading of Son Chang-seop's work is that his novel is based on a very fundamental fact that deals with the problem of war. Son Chang-sup reflects on the wounds of the time of war through the melancholy-keeper's depressed emotions that fail to gaze on the lost object or the lost inner face. Korean society in the 1950s was a time when we had to forget the wounds of colonialism and war under the sign of liberation. At that time, South Korea rapidly mass - produced the illusion of uniform nationalism along with anti - communism. The state in which everything appears in the form of overstriking has been absolutized and sacred. In this process, the state ruled out the "insecure others" that can not be absorbed into the body of the people in order to maintain the order of identity of the people. In short, after the war, anti-communism, nationalism, etc. Korea lost its 'otherness'. However, the main characters of Son Chang-seop's novels reveal the nostalgia for the batter that was lost through the melancholy that was created in a society deprived of tyranny. In a word, Son Chang-seop's novel seeks true politics of mourning against melancholy subject that can not be easily separated from others, against the situation of mourning impossible. From this point of view, this paper examines the mourning potential of melancholy in the early fragments of Son Chang - seop in the 1950s.
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