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A Study on the Literary Implication and the Possibility of the Old Age Novel 󰠏 Focused on Choi Il󰠏nam and Mun Sun󰠏tae's Novels 󰠏

  • DONAM OHMUNHAK
  • Abbr : 돈암
  • 2019, 36(), pp.64~93
  • DOI : 10.17056/donam.2019.36..63
  • Publisher : The Donam Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature > Korean Literature > History of Korean Literature
  • Received : November 28, 2019
  • Accepted : December 22, 2019
  • Published : December 31, 2019

Heung Nam Jeon 1

1한려대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study focused on Choi Il󰠏nam and Mun Sun󰠏tae's novels to find out the value and the prospect of the old age novel. While it might be open to dispute where to draw the line of old age novel, it can be narrowed down to novels wherein an old man is the leading character and which deals with the lives of the old. A writer himself gets old as a natural person. Some aging writers who have reached their senescence, have released noticeable novels about the everyday lives of the old. In this case, wherein the writers themselves aging as natural persons wrote about the lives of the old, proved to be high󰠏quality. An old age is the time for arranging one's life. Naturally, the old age novel broaches death and arouses the fundamental nature of our lives. In this sense, it is worth researching on literary implications and meanings of literary history of the old age novel. Novels of Mun Sun󰠏tae and Choi Il󰠏nam are especially noteworthy. They both have several characters of the old age novels though they do not differ greatly as to be compared. Their ways of developing the epic and discussing are differentiated. It seems that further study on works of the old age novel such as works of Lee Chung󰠏jun, Kim Won󰠏il, Oh Jeong󰠏hui, Park Wan󰠏seo, would give some implications of the problems and future direction of the old age novel.

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