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The Relationship between Yi Kwang-su's “Mu-Myeong” and Tolstoy's Resurrection

  • Chunwon Research journal
  • Abbr : Chunwon Research journal
  • 2020, (19), pp.9-37
  • DOI : 10.31809/crj.2020.12.19.9
  • Publisher : Chunwon Research Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature
  • Received : October 30, 2020
  • Accepted : December 6, 2020
  • Published : December 31, 2020

Park, Jin-sook 1

1충북대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper is to investigate Yi Kwang-su's “Mu-Myeong” in relation to Tolstoy's Resurrection. Resurrection has been read mainly about the love affair between Nekhlyudov and Katyusha, but I try to find out the relation between “Mu-Myeong” and Resurrection, especially focusing on the space of ‘prison’ system, which had been discussed at that time. The relations between two novels are as follow. Firstly, there is a similarity of the types of crimes, The arsonist and the alleged forgery of private documents are found to be common in the two works. Secondly, the insight that Nekhlyudov feels about humans in “Resurrection” can be also found in ‘I’’s insight into humanity in “Mu-Myeong”. Thirdly, ‘I’ in “Mu-Myeong” and Nekhlyudov in Resurrection are given same roles in the prison of each novel. This may seem trivial, but it provides an important opportunity for us to pay attention to “I,” as an observer of “Mu-Myeong”. “I”, as an observer, does not appear a flaw in the novel, but play a very important role in revealing that Yi Kwang-su has reached a state where he can no longer enlighten his people. Manifestation of the impossibility of enlightenment is the inner meaning of “Mu-Myeong”.

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