권구현의 시정신과 아나키즘 ―『黑房의 선물』을 중심으로 = Kwon Gu-Hyeon’s Poetic Spirit and Anarchism

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Kwon Gu-Hyeon worked actively in various art genres as a representative anarchist. In addition to working as a calligrapher, he created poems, sijos (traditional Korean three-verse poems), children’s stories, novels, literary criticism, art criticism, and comics. He also won numerous prize as a painter at the Joseon Fine Art Exhibition and worked in a traveling theater troupe by showing his excellent talent in chang (traditional Korean narrative song). However, in the history of Korean literature, Kwon Gy-Hyeon’s literary works are not substantial. Although many theses have been published since the 1990s, their numbers are relatively small. Many aspects related to Kwon Gy-Hyeon’s lifetime have not been revealed; therefore, his life and literature related to anarchism should be closely researched.
Kwon Gu-Hyeon represents anarchist literature together with Kim Hwa-San. Nevertheless, he is not renowned because anarchist literature has been pushed out to the non-mainstream in Korean literature. Even though anarchist literature was placed in a leading position during the Japanese colonial era, the history of Korean literature was reorganized as a Marxist literature camp and nationalist literature camp after the liberation and then excluded from the mainstream history of literature. It was not only lost in the confrontation with Marxist literature, but it also received criticism from the nationalist literature camp and has thus been left at the edge of Korean literature. The lack of interest in Kwon Gu-Hyeon by the history of Korean literature reflects the reality of anarchist literature.
Kwon Gu-Hyeon not only considered anarchism as his ideological basis, but he also aimed to create works that conveyed it after systematizing it as a literary theory. This is not a common case of writing works based on firm ideological orientation and literary theory; Kwon Gu-Hyeon’s works are important in studies on the history of Korean literature. In particular, poetry is more critical as it is the core of Kwon Gu-Hyeon’s literature and it fully reveals anarchism as his ideological orientation. For this reason, in the examination of the will to aim for anarchism, Kwon Gu-Hyeon’s poetry has its own value.
Kwon devoted himself to the creation of poetry and sijos. In the case of sijos, he pioneered a field that differed from existing sijos in terms of the perception of reality. He showed a poetic perception different from the traditional sentiment such as “leisurely enjoyment of natural scenery” or “comfortable enjoyment of Tao even while living a poor life” commonly shown in sijos, presenting a perception of th e world and class through reality. This perception might be the result of an ideological orientation based on anarchism.
This study reveals the correlation between the anarchism Kwon Gu-Hyeon aimed for and his works.
It seeks to understand how anarchism was represented in his works by closely analyzing Kwon Gu-Hyeon’s lifetime, ideological orientation, literary theory, and actual works.