2015, Vol.72, No.4

Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.89

pISSN : 1598-3021 / eISSN : 2671-7921
https://journal.kci.go.kr/snu-ioh

This paper purposes to consider how young intellectuals are represented in the popular novels of the lateer period of Japanese colonization, especially in Lee Gun-Young's The Third Slave (『第三奴隸』) and Um Heung-Sup's The Desert of Life (『人生沙漠』). In Lee and Um's novels, the real situations of Joseon intellectuals and farmers in the Colonial Period were represented. But during the late 1930's, when Japanese regulations were getting reinforced, the writers could not help but write popular novels in order to avoid censorship. The Third Slave (『第三奴隸』) and The Desert of Life (『人生沙漠』) are also kinds of popular novels, but in these novels, we can find the 'real' representation of young intellectuals of Joseon who could not find any visions and who were not cheerful far from the Japanese discourse. And along with this, the new prospects of the young intellectuals of Joseon were suggested. Especially, the romance of these novels showed more than a melodramatic story; it demonstrated issues such as the importance of intellectuals' ethical relationship with money and conviction (in The Third Slave) or the relationship of comrades that is conviction-oriented.

This article aims to compare the key features of the literature of Antonio Tabucchi and Fernando Pessoa, in particular by examining a novel by Tabucchi, Requiem (1991). In Requiem, which involves a lot of allusions on Pessoa, we can never clearly distinguish between fantasy and reality, dream and reality, life and death, conscious and unconscious etc. But from there, we can deduce the major characteristics of two writers: one is exploring the world of dreams and fantasy, the other is writing itself in the plural split. Many poems and works of prose by Pessoa are filled with the transcript of the dream world; the works of Tabucchi are often found on the borders between fantasy world and real world. In addition, Tabucchi and Pessoa possess both a lively awareness of the multiplicity of the self, so that in particular, Pessoa makes a perfect plural writing, producing more than seventy heteronym.

This paper considers possible ways in which the archaeological study of the ‘social time’ of past societies may take place. Focus is placed upon the notion of ‘social time’ because if it is acknowledged that ‘time is socially constructed’, then time may come to be regarded as an important element in understanding past societies. An examination of previous archaeological studies involving time reveals that the notion of ‘time as social’ was accepted as a given without further investigations into why it may be regarded as such. Therefore, the discourse on social time that was undertaken within the disciplines of anthropology and sociology is reviewed. In addition, anthropological and sociological case studies on social time are examined and used as heuristic devices in formulating a methodology for the archaeological study of social time. Finally, possible changes in time reckoning systems that may have occurred as a result of the transition from a hunter-gatherer to farming society are explored in order to demonstrate how the study of social time may contribute to the broader discourse on the transition to farming society in Bronze Age Korea.