이호철의 ｢우국회사｣에 나타난 우국 놀이에 대한 연구 = A Study on Patriotism Play Appearing in Lee Ho-cheol’s Novel, “Ugukhoesa”

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examines the artistic world of Lee Ho-cheol’s novel, “Ugukhoesa (Patriot Company)” (1967), focusing on patriotism play. In Chapter 2, the generational dimension of “Ugukhoesa” was identified. “Ugukhoesa” criticizes the old generation’s reality-compromising, militaristic inner side through journalist Sohn Sang-mun, history professor Kim Wal-jin, and Jeong Hyong-un, who creates a ‘patriotism loyalty professional association’. In Chapter 3, this study looked at the point that the ‘patriotism loyalty professional association’ satirized the ‘reconstruction’ (national reconstruction movement). Superficially, the patriotism loyalty professional association is an organization that aims at a national moral movement. It satirizes the militaristic national reconstruction movement including trainees in green uniforms, morning meeting instruction every morning, plancards saying ‘Let’s all gather in the great line of patriotism, patriotism, patriotism!’, and Jeong Hyong-un’s speeches and military songs, etc. Chapter 4 clarified that the real reason why Jeong Hyong-un created the patriotism loyalty professional association was to play patriotism play. Jeong Hyong-un plays to imitate Ahn Jung-geun representing the historical patriots and Ham Seok-heon representing the contemporary patriots. In the 1960s, not only the forces of the 5-16 coup, but also Ham Seok-heon, who resisted it, called for a national movement and advocated “patriotism,” a time when it was sacred. Ham Seok-heon as well as coup forces could not be free from secularization work as a form of political oppression. Lee Ho-cheol fully demonstrates the lightness and liberation of an artist who plays through “Patriot Company”. And it carries out the political work of profanating the political theology that dominated the 1960s through Jeong Hyong-un’s patriot play, or the sanctified politics.