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Kim Kijin 金基鎭 (1903–85) was a literary critic, writer, and poet who had a formative influence on leftist literary culture in colonial Korea. He was a founding member of the Chosŏn P’ŭrollet’aria Yesulga Tongmaeng 朝鮮프롤레타리아藝術家同盟 (Korean Artist Proletarian Federation, hereafter KAPF), a socialist literary group formed in 1925 that, until its disbandment in 1935, was the main leftist cultural organization in Korea. In 1924 in the magazine Kaebyŏk 開闢 (Creation), he published “Pulgŭn chwi” (붉은 쥐, Red rat), 1 inaugurating an early phase of KAPF literature called Sin kyŏnghyangp’a munhak 新傾向派 文學 (New tendency literature).2 Characterized by sensationalism and grotesque imagery, New Tendency literature brought to readers’ attention the oppressive conditions of capitalist exploitation and was heralded by leftist critics as the first step toward a genuinely proletarian literature.3 The protagonist of the story, Pak Hyŏngjun, is a penniless intellectual who, discontent with the world around him, longs for an ideal world of his imagination, which appears to him more real than reality itself. Over the course of the story, he comes to abandon his escapist fantasy and confront his sordid reality. When he stumbles upon a bloody rat on the street, he realizes that he must do whatever it takes to survive, like the thieving rat. Following the law of the rat, he steals from a grocery store and is hit by a firetruck during the ensuing police chase. The story ends with a graphic description of his mutilated body, sprawled on the street like the titular red rat.

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Red Rat
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저자

• Hannah KWAK [ New York University ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  Acta Koreana

• 간기

  반년간

• pISSN

  1520-7412

• 수록기간

  1998~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재,SCOPUS,A&,HCI

• 십진분류

  KDC 912 DDC 951