@article{ART003331651},
author={Hong Rae-seong},
title={Participation of the Writer-Intellectual – Focusing on the Case of Post-war French Literary Scholar Kim Bung-gu},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2026},
volume={19},
number={1},
pages={32-63},
doi={10.22901/trans.2026.19.1.32}
TY - JOUR
AU - Hong Rae-seong
TI - Participation of the Writer-Intellectual – Focusing on the Case of Post-war French Literary Scholar Kim Bung-gu
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2026
VL - 19
IS - 1
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 32
EP - 63
SN - 2092-6081
AB - This paper aims to clarify the nature of engagement as conceived by Kim Bung-gu. In his paper The Writer and Society, Kim Bung-gu rejected Sartre and instead emphasized the relationship between the creative self and the social self, Camus's spontaneous engagement, and the respective cases of Malraux–Saint-Exupéry and Gide–Camus. These positions provoked fierce opposition at the time. Kim Bung-gu's argument derived from two lines of discourse he had consistently maintained: ① a witness literature discourse holding that writers must bear truthful testimony grounded in lived experience, with Gide, Malraux, and Camus as exemplary figures; and ② an intellectual discourse criticizing petit intellectuals who followed Sartrean engagement, and arguing that Korean intellectuals should instead pursue a cooperative form of participation—sharing in joys and sorrows and dividing labor—what Kim termed participation. In sum, The Writer and Society expressed Kim Bung-gu's long-held conviction that genuine engagement is achieved only when a writer's testimony and an intellectual's participation attain an appropriate tension and harmony.
KW - The Debate between Pure Literature and Engaged Literature;Sartre;Camus;Gide;Malraux;Saint-Exupéry;Literature of Witness;Intellectuals
DO - 10.22901/trans.2026.19.1.32
ER -
Hong Rae-seong. (2026). Participation of the Writer-Intellectual – Focusing on the Case of Post-war French Literary Scholar Kim Bung-gu. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 19(1), 32-63.
Hong Rae-seong. 2026, "Participation of the Writer-Intellectual – Focusing on the Case of Post-war French Literary Scholar Kim Bung-gu", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.19, no.1 pp.32-63. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2026.19.1.32
Hong Rae-seong "Participation of the Writer-Intellectual – Focusing on the Case of Post-war French Literary Scholar Kim Bung-gu" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 19.1 pp.32-63 (2026) : 32.
Hong Rae-seong. Participation of the Writer-Intellectual – Focusing on the Case of Post-war French Literary Scholar Kim Bung-gu. 2026; 19(1), 32-63. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2026.19.1.32
Hong Rae-seong. "Participation of the Writer-Intellectual – Focusing on the Case of Post-war French Literary Scholar Kim Bung-gu" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 19, no.1 (2026) : 32-63.doi: 10.22901/trans.2026.19.1.32
Hong Rae-seong. Participation of the Writer-Intellectual – Focusing on the Case of Post-war French Literary Scholar Kim Bung-gu. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 19(1), 32-63. doi: 10.22901/trans.2026.19.1.32
Hong Rae-seong. Participation of the Writer-Intellectual – Focusing on the Case of Post-war French Literary Scholar Kim Bung-gu. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2026; 19(1) 32-63. doi: 10.22901/trans.2026.19.1.32
Hong Rae-seong. Participation of the Writer-Intellectual – Focusing on the Case of Post-war French Literary Scholar Kim Bung-gu. 2026; 19(1), 32-63. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2026.19.1.32
Hong Rae-seong. "Participation of the Writer-Intellectual – Focusing on the Case of Post-war French Literary Scholar Kim Bung-gu" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 19, no.1 (2026) : 32-63.doi: 10.22901/trans.2026.19.1.32
