兪鎭午의 리얼리즘攷 : 現實地平과 文學的 地平 = A Study on the aspect of Realism in Yu Chin-O

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Thesis is a research into the transformational process of realism in Yu Chin-O's literature.
1. In the fellow-traveller age, Yu Chin-O advocated realism which was to criticize and deny present reality and suggest concrete future vision, according to the so-called ideology. It could be called proletariat realism. The relation of his literature to reality was of negation and proleptic projection.
2. After the dissolution of the KAPF and the outbreak of Sino-Japanese War, he lost his vision on the future but was directed to critical realism aiming at historical and social analysis. That his works, however, did not reflect his thought is an illustration of the disparity between his recognition and emotion, or conception and sentiment, representing his inner frustration and apprehension in front of emerging Fascism.
3. Confronting the aggravating situation, lost direction of history and limited understanding of the world, he finally decided to acknowledge reality. It is the so-called choice of reality of everyday life and his works of the era assumed a radically different aspect from that of the former era works of the X-ray realism revealing the nature of institutions forming reality. The works of the later era were, in relation to reality, of the mimetic affirmation of everyday life.
4. The process of his realism from criticism and proleptic projection to criticism, and then to mimetic affirmation of everyday life corresponds to the stagess of his gradual loss of future vision. Therefore, owing to his loss of direction of history, he came to describe not what-ought-to-be but what-is of here-and-now. In other words, it is a change from dynamic realism to fixed realism.
5. This change, being at first a choice of Yu Chin-O as an individual, shows to us the problem of the age too. It is to be remembered that the age itself did not reveal the direction of history, and that the horizons of the aesthetic discovery of reality was closed.
6. In sum, Yu Chin-O had a strong revolutionary will; but his realism became impotent when adhered only to the surface of reality and in his mentality was there the sterile opposition to reality, which could not prepare to welcome the nearing National Liberation. Here in its extreme is shown a sign of coward adaptation to reality.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 序言
• Ⅱ. 問題接近을 爲한 豫備考察
• Ⅲ. 現實地平과 文學的 地平
• 1. 카프와의 蜜月, 그 樣相
• 2. 轉形期와 리얼리즘의 歸趨
• 3. 「事實文學」 宣言의 精神史的 意味
• Ⅳ. 結語