金石範「糞と自由と」論 - 知識青年の「敗北」と「糞まみれの自由」の意味をめぐって -
A Study of Kim Seok-beom’s Hun to Jiyu to(Feces and Freedom) : Concerning the meaning of “defeat” in the young elite and “freedom covered with feces”
The novel Feces and Freedom(1960) of the Korean Japanese writer Kim Seokbeom is a story set on the chrome mine in Hokkaido in the colonial period, developing closely to an inner thinking of the Korean youth(Seong, Taeil) who was drafted. This paper examined the meaning of “defeat” in Taeil who can also be referred to as a young elite and “freedom covered with feces” which he pursued, with the work as an analysis target. First of all, this paper showed the beginning is to fulfill the function of involving the reader in questioning the space time of the story being developed and characters's subjectivity, through the writer’s narrative strategy that the reader actively getting involved in the narrative situation. In addition, this paper examined that the reader can read the narrative structure and the characters’ internal thinking not being portrayed, through grasping Japanese workers who is as a blank and the delay information. Second, it focused on the history and role of the Korean executive Yasukawa, analyzed his ambivalent feeling and a manipulation of writer to evoked the historical nature of the “Kyowakai”. Finally, this paper showed that narrative mechanism what Taeil tasted double “defeat”, on account of nonelite called Yongbegi, on the basis of Taeil’s image. In addition, this paper showed that “freedom” what requested by Taeil is that oneself who does not rule someone and is not dominated by someone, and desire for regaining the subjectivity from oblivion of the subject and submission. It is the theme of this novel that “freedom” must pursue even when becoming “covered with feces”.