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The Modern calamity and Literary truth in Byeon Youngman’s “Sang-yibuansi”

Jin-kyun Kim 1

1성균관대학교

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ABSTRACT

In the early colonial period Byeon Youngman had exiled and returned from China and the Philippines. Returned to Korea, in 1920’s Byeon Youngman, launched a vigorous literary activity. This paper studied the way that Byeon Youngman established the novelty in these days his Sino-Korean literature, “Sang-yibuansi”. The core of his novelty was capturing the inner surface of the human in various ways. Not only his novelty was different from the traditional way of Sino-Korean literature’s. But also his novelty was different from the tendency of modern Korean literature’s. In the “Sang-yibuansi”, Byeon Youngman descripted a calamity of modern working poor class, and a stroll through the modern city. These two constituent element constructed the sincerity of the modern Sino-Korean Literature. His approaches differentiated himself from those of the enlightenment discourses in modern times that imposed duties on the public as he imposed duties on themselves instead. Byeon Youngman strolled through the modern city, at the same time he walk around the modern times.

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