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The ideological opposition and humanistic communication - Centering around of postwar novels of Huang Sun-won -

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ABSTRACT

Hwang Sun won's earlier works mostly express his ambition and vision for the ideal world. On the contrary, his postwar novels describe the cruelty of Korean war caused by the conflict of ideologies and destruction for humanization. This article will further explain the humanization-oriented feature of Hwang Sun won's postwar novels by investigating its awareness for ideologies. and critical attitude of Hwang Sun won. In essence, Korean War is a fratricidal tragedy caused by conflict of ideologies. In his postwar novels Hwang Sun won keep a distance from ideologies to try to describe this war of ideologies objectively. His short novels use the method of compare and contrast to express the cruelty of war by describing the lost of humanization of people, while his long novels focus on the mental suffering of people, which is more tragic than normal physical injury. Based on this point, Hwang Sun won brought out with "Korean War is a historical tragedy without good and evil, without injurer and victim". Postwar novels of Hwang Sun won advocate using humanization, which means human dignity and value to eliminate conflict of ideologies. His humanization-oriented attitude, criticizes the inhumanity of ideological war. His try to use humanization to win ideological war has profound meaning in the history of Korean literature.

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