멜로드라마와 4.19 혁명의 서사적 절합 - 박경리의 1960년대 대중연애소설 『푸른 운하』, 『노을 진 들녘』 다시 읽기

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper seeks to correct the uniformity of Korean modern literary history and novel which represent 4.19 civil revolution in two aspects. The first is to reread the meaning of popular romance novels that communicated with the public around the existing male-centered literary field in 1960s, composed of pure literature and short stories. The second is actively reread the woman writer’s popular romance story that has been excluded from the prior research about male-youth-intellectual oriented 4.19 novels.
This paper pays attention to the narrative articulation between melodrama and the 4.19 civil revolution in Park Kyung-ri’s 1960s popular romance novel Blue Canal and Sunset Field. Blue Canal and Sunset Field melt the state of political, economic and moral chaos and instability at the end of the Liberal Party’s regime into the melodrama style. While highlighting melodrama’s ‘moral occult’, ‘sensationalism’ and dichotomy of good and evil, these novels contrast the gloomy but pure love of the younger generation with the older generation’s love which is connected with money, power. In both novels, hometown-country means the place for purity, hope and nostalgia for the younger generation. The fall of the villain, the triumph of the good, the purity that overwhelms sensationalism and violence show the writer’s anticipation about young intellectuals in post 4.19.
In chapter 3, I noted that two novels narrated the 4.19 civil revolution by borrowing newspaper articles, reports and writer’s direct comments. It can be evaluated that unique features of writer’s 4.19 novels. Acknowledging such narrative characteristics, the influence of the 4.19 spirit on the younger generation can be found by reading the texts carefully. The spirit of the younger generation- solidarity, generosity, sense of responsibility and restoration of moral feeling– could achieve the probability and justification through the short but objective recording about 4.19 civil revolution.
In conclusion, the two novels provide clues to expanding the outer space of literary history and reconsidering the political characteristics of popular novels. Because woman writer’s popular literature shows the social and historical scene of revolution in a ‘different’ way. The novels’ time background between pre-4.19 revolution, the time of despair, anxiety, depression and post-5.16 recidivism, was the time that the younger generation was still able to reform. Park Kyung-ri showed her expectation for the younger generations who change themselves and the community through reformation. The younger generation, and the hometown or country engraved in the texts mean purity, nostalgia, and regeneration, and these embody the writer’s aspiration and expectation about post 4.19.

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