This paper attempts to analyze the issue of an author's historical perception expressed in his works. Sangsup Yom, an author, lets readers go along Inhwa Lee, a protagonist, returning to homeland in his work 『Mansaejeon』, in which readers can easi...
This paper attempts to analyze the issue of an author's historical perception expressed in his works. Sangsup Yom, an author, lets readers go along Inhwa Lee, a protagonist, returning to homeland in his work 『Mansaejeon』, in which readers can easily identify the author's recognition in a process of tracing the work. Inhwa Lee, who can scarcely forbear from his homeland colonized by Japan, faces hardly the reality in that two groups, shabby pro-Japanese group and shaky Chosun populace, are unstably mixed up. He gets very confused by those mystical behavior and has a question how these people have a potentially great energy such an explosive 3.1 movements. Sangsup Yom, an author, maybe regards the 3.1 movements as a failed populace movement. The denial of historical view is deduced from his denial of nationality and it goes nearly to end up as a pro-Japanese himself. This process can be traced by Injik Lee's and Kwangsu Lee's cases, although Sangsup Yom's case is not the exactly same as theirs. The national consciousness showed in the beginning of his works, maybe acts as a final support to prevent Sangsup Yom from the extreme corruption; a traitorous author such as Injik Lee and Kwangsu Lee. We understand that Sangsup Yom tries later to reconstruct his national consciousness according to his works, 『Samdea』 and 『Muhwakwa』. Anyway, by means of historical perception, we acknowledge that 『Mansaejeon』 can be specified in a limited work written in the critical period before the author's historical view has not been matured.