방정환의 「참된 동정」에 나타난 ‘빵과 장미’의 상상력 = The Imagination of ‘Bread and Roses’ in Bang Jung-Hwan’s 「True Sympathy」

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Bang Jung-Hwan’s 「True Sympathy」 has mostly been criticized as a source of ‘irrational or non-realistic imagination.’ He is described as ‘a romantist who chose flowers over rice.’ However, this study clarified that the piece was a modification of Turgenev’s prose poem, 「The Beggar」, and emphasized ‘brotherhood and equality’ just as the original. Turgenev is a Russian writer who is deeply rooted in the history of Korean proletarian literature. When 「True Sympathy」, which Bang published in 『Sincheongnyeon (Aug 1920)』 before entering children’s literature, is classified into a prose poem, Bang would be placed in the tradition of creation with inspiration from Turgenev followed by Kim Ki-Jin, Jung Ji-Yong, and Yoon Dong-Joo. Bang Jung- Hwan was one of the leaders of 『Sincheongnyeon』, a journal of the ‘secret’ Gyeongseong Youth Club and highly active from the emergence of modern literature. For Bang Jung-Hwan, social movements and literary movements were not two, but one and led him to Chondogyo’s ‘idea of dawn of civilization’ in pursuit of liberation. Therefore, 「True Sympathy」, a version of Turgenev’s 「The Beggar」, was not ‘flowers over rice’, but the imagination of ‘bread and roses’ that reminded the readers of the human rights of social weak.