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The meaning of The Son of Man between Lee Moon-yeol’s and Augusto Roa Bastos’
Chunwon Research journal
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Chunwon Research journal
2020, (19), pp.141-178
Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
Research Area : Korean Literature
2020, (19), pp.141-178
Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
Research Area : Korean Literature
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Lee Moon-yeol’s The Son of Man can be seen as one of the earliest work of Korean Christian literature that earnestly attempted to engage in Korean Society. The Son of Man of Augusto Roa Bastos’ is a novel written in a similar format to the same theme. They were against to the traditional Christian theology and the understanding of the Bible and tried to suggest different solutions that substitutes previous ones by adapting a different understanding about the Bible and unbiblical elements. However, readers cannot fully understand what The Son of Man in the stories means and also cannot understand what messages the writers of them intended to convey to the readers only through religious or literal approaches. When the readers approach the theological concepts in a dipper ways, they can finally understand the real message that the writers tried to deliver them through The Son of Man. Lee Mun-yeol borrows the contents of the apocrypha, gnostisism and the perspective of Minjung theology to his novel and Roa Bastos borrows the syncretism between south American native religions and Catholic theology with liberation theology. Lee is still talking about the salvation depends on Christian church and on few intellectuals when he talks about same topic about the salvation of this world, otherwise Roa deals with the multitude as the subject and also the object of the salvation work. This study is to compare the meaning of ‘the Son of Man’ of these two writres and to understand better what messages the writers of two novels tried to express by trying different approaches which is mentioned above.
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