김수영 문학에 나타난 근대의 속도와 윤리

Abstract

This study aims at understanding of Kim Soo-young's poems, paying attention to 'velocity' which is key elements of his understanding of Modernity. We will reveal his understanding of velocity and the way and its meaning of his ethical thought in his text. From the start of his writing, Kim Soo-young recognized sharply the way of acceptance of modernity in Korea. Since 90's many studies paid attention to this point, because not only of internal and external situations of Korea, but also of diverse range of his recognition of modernity. Previous studies have been focused on his thought of Modern space-time, various themes of Modernity and Modern subject, We will focus on Kim's thought of modern velocity to synthesizes those three kind of studies. Chapter ?U-1 studies Kim's thought of Modernity after 8․ 15 Liberation. At that time, Kim made friendship with modernists but kept a distance from them. For example, his early poem ?Confucius's Livelihood Sufferage? shows defiance and his late proses play pranks on that modernists. It is not by-product of his complex, but of his precautions against 'velocitism' in that times. Chapter ?U-2 analyzes the process in which Kim's warning of modern velocity changed to fear. The novel ?A Volunteer Army? represents the fear of people having velocity through confrontation plot of air raid vs. marching. Guilty conscience of not defecting to North Korea noticeable in this work shows Kim's revolutionary temper and ethical conscience. Kim's poetic progress afterwards was greatly influenced by the fear of velocity and the ethical responsibility for revolutionary task. This is closely related to Kim's consciousness of modern velocity as not the object of pursuit but the one of subjugation. Chapter ?V-1 analyzes the subjugation conscience of modern velocity focusing on 'sorrow'. Kim's sorrow is near, unlike what is generally known, to deep-rooted subconsciousness existed ever before pre-war. ?Music? implies that the root of sorrow is related to ethical guilty conscience being sensed in liberation space. ?Amusement in the Moon?, ?Indecent Incense Burners? express resistance attitudes through exhausting velocity and sorrow. In other words, Kim's sorrow and velocity are products of ethical unconsciousness jointed in order to reveal the process in which he had subjugated fascinating modernity. Chapter ?V-2 analyzes the insufficiently explained characteristics of disappearing of inanimate object which are shown in some poems. Some poems such as ?The Ephemera?, ?Smoke? shows the moment which transverses and breaks away the modern era. The breakaway from the velocity of modern era could be considered as an inclination toward the freedom of living in a individual and singular way. Chapter ?W-1 argues that Kim had moved on to new subject called ?ethe invention of singular velocity?f over the resistance to the velocity. It means that Kim started to dig into the process changing ethics as a temperament into ethics as a practice. Some poems such as ?A wilderness?, ?The First Poem? shows the peculiar rhythm and velocity of a subject who stands against the velocity of imperialism. And the momentum for discovering numerous subjects was 4.19 revolution of South Korea. These independent subjectivity discovered after the revolution bore the affirmative concept to ?enumerous reaction?f. Chapter ?W-2 studies 'death' of negative things produced by modern velocity and 'love' which is to be accomplished by new generations. ?Modern Bridge? shows that 'productive oblivion' should be a prerequisite for new Modernity and that a new velocity should be invented from that 'death'. ?Variation of Love? shows that 'love' is the revolution which is presented as possibility of infinite achievement.