In Kim Saryang’s early works, many of the protagonists remind us of the author himself, but most of these protagonists/narrators take the attitude of onlookers, maintaining a distance from the developments of the plot. However, in Kyoshu [Homesickness], the representative work of Kokyo [Home], the second collection of his works, this structure is shaken. Kyoushu is a distinctive work because of the way in which even though its narration is from a third person perspective the distance between protagonist and narrator suddenly narrows and then just as suddenly expands again. In all these sections, Kim Saryang’s national emotion is expressed. In particular the sudden separation of narrator and protagonist in the section in Hokkai Park. expresses the anxiety with regard to Japanese of a writer from a colony. Broadly speaking, there are three parts of the book where this mix-up in the narration occurs: his recollections in the train on the way to Manchuria of the great power that Korea held in her past; in the section where the protagonist screams as he disguises the voice of the pottery, “I” and the hero become one and the same but at the same time, in the episode in the park the protagonist and the narrator do not share the same information. The fact of the story’s narrator placing distance between himself and the psychological state of the protagonist and then closing that distance is not in itself that special, but there are parts of Kyoshu where this distance between the narrator and the hero change abruptly. In particular, this is a feature of the sections where the writer’s “national emotion” is expressed. Through Korean culture as represented by Kokuryo, by the use of the instinctively defined elements of history, culture and language that that make a race Kokyo and Kyoshu expand to become something ethnic. The fact that Kim Saryang’s concept of “home” is connected to the nation.
본 한국일본학회는 일본관련 학회로는 1973년에 한국 최초로 성립되어 2015년 3월 현재 가입회원수 기준 1000여명에 달하는 방대한 학회로 발전하였다. 본 학회는 일본어학 및 일본학은 물론,일본의교육,사상,역사,민속 등 일본학 전반에 걸친 연구와 한일간의 일본학 전반에 걸친 비교 연구를 대상으로 하는 학회로서 회원들의 연구기회 제공과 정보의 교류를 주된 목표로 하고 있다. 분회 발표를 포함하여 매년 20회 가까운 학술발표회와 국제학술대회를 개최 함으로서 발표 기회의 제공과 함께 회원 상호간의 친목 도모의 장으로도 활용하며 건전한 학회발전을 지향하고 있다.